Title page of the 1563 edition:<div style="text-align: center;">ACTES and Monuments<br>of these latter and perillous dayes,<br>touching matters of the Church….<br>according to the … wrytinges … of the parties them selves that suffered, as also out of the Bishops Registers, which were the doers therof….</div>
Bishop Latimer to Dr Ridley, at their execution:<div style="text-align:center;">Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.</div>
The witness of Christians who were persecuted under King Henry VIII (1509--47) and Queen Mary Tudor (1553--8), described by a contemporary.