@article{541968, recid = {541968}, author = {Foxe, John,}, title = {Fox's original and complete book of martyrs; or, An universal history of martyrdom. Containing full, copious, and authentic accounts of lives and sufferings, together with the actions, characters, examinations, trials, religious principles, tortures, and triumphant deaths, of all the glorious Protestant martyrs, during the reign of Queen Mary the First. To which will be added, a genuine, circumstantial, full, and universal history of the lives, persecutions, tortures, and deaths of the primitive martyrs, and Church of Christ, in all parts of the world, by Papists, pagans, Jews, Turks, and others, from the birth of our blessed saviour to the reign of Queen Mary. The whole originally composed by the Rev. John Fox, M.A. formerly of Magdalen College, Oxford. A new edition. Now carefully revised, corrected, and improved, by a minister of the gospel. ... With many other remarkable martyrdoms and persecutions, viz. Those of the more early Christian martyrs in the very earliest ages of the world. ... The whole forming at once a general Christian martyrology, and a complete history of persecutions, from the earliest ages of the world to the present time. Calculated to promote the Protestant religion, and expel superstition from the minds of mankind. Embellished with near 300 elegant engravings [electronic resource].}, publisher = {printed for Alex. Hogg, (no. 16,) Paternoster-Row; and sold by the booksellers of Bath, Bristol, Birmingham, Canterbury, Cambridge, Coventry, Chester, Derby, Exeter, Gloucester, Hereford, Hull, Ipswich, Leeds, Liverpool, Leicester, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, Nottingham, Northampton, Oxford, Reading, Salisbury, Sherborn, Sheffield, Shrewsbury, Worcester, Winchester, York; and by all other booksellers and newsmen in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland,}, address = {London :}, pages = {[3],vi-951,[5]p.,plates :}, year = {1795}, note = {A minister of the Gospel = Paul Wright.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/541968}, }