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<strong>GLORIA SOLI DEO. For the witness of JESUS and for the Word of GOD, not accepting deliverance, JOHN HOOPER … Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester, was burnt to ashes on this spot, February ix, Anno Domini mdlv</strong>]]
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.<ref>Pratt J (1853) "The church historians of England. Reformation period. The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe.", Vol 07 part 02., for free download from https://archive.org/details/churchhistorians0702prat/page/n5/mode/2up , page numbered 550.</ref></divbr>
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.<ref>Pratt J (1853) "The church historians of England. Reformation period. The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe.", Vol 07 part 02., for free download from https://archive.org/details/churchhistorians0702prat/page/n5/mode/2up , page numbered 550.</ref></div><br>
*The witness of Christians who were persecuted under King Henry VIII (1509–1547) and Queen Mary Tudor (1553–1558), described by a contemporary.
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