About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, John Foxe, Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk, Manuel da Nobrega, Hayashi Narinaga, Anne Bourchier, 7th Baroness Bourchier, Odet de Coligny, Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, Jacques Pelletier du Mans, Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, Emperor gimachi, Frans Floris, Amalia of Cleves, Bernard Gilpin, Rembert Dodoens, James Beaton II, Thomas Sampson, Otte Brahe, Henry Sutton Dudley, Gioseffo Zarlino, Carlo Carafa, Francisco de Holanda, Paulus Hector Mair, Abdallah al-Ghalib, Pierre Boaistuau, Henry Clifford, 2nd Earl of Cumberland, Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort, John Pullain, Gotthard Kettler, Otto IV of Schaumburg, Pierre Belon, Francis I, Duke of Lorraine, Johannes Aurifaber, Hercules von Oberberg, Nicolas de Nicolay, Pere Alberch Vila, Antonio Scandello, Celso Sozzini, Thomas Godwin, Mimura Iechika, Giacomo Gaggini, George Bowes, Tamura Takaaki, Giovanni Andrea dell' Anguillara, Natsume Yoshinobu, Richard Saltonstall. Excerpt: John Foxe (1517 - 18 April 1587) was an English historian and martyrologist, the author of what is popularly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs, an account of Christian martyrs throughout Western history but emphasizing the sufferings of English Protestants and proto-Protestants from the fourteenth century through the reign of Mary I. Widely owned and read by English Puritans, the book helped mould British popular opinion about the Catholic Church for several centuries. Foxe was born at Boston, in Lincolnshire, England of a middlingly prominent family and seems to have been an unusually studious and devout child. In about 1534, when he was about sixteen, he entered Brasenose College, Oxford, where he was the pupil of John Hawarden (or Harding), a fellow of the college. In 1535 Foxe was admitted to Magdalen College School, where he may either have been improving hi...
