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><p>
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><p>
The witness of Christians who were persecuted under King Henry VIII (1509--47) and Queen Mary Tudor (1553--8), described by a contemporary.
Relevant editions were published in 1559 (Latin, Switzerland), 1563 (first English edition), 1570, 1576, 1583.
Foxe had been a Fellow of Magdalen College Oxford (pronounced mordlin collegeMordlin College) 1538/9 to 1545.
Details of trials, accounts of martyrdoms, letters from gaol, etc.