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[[File:St Mary's Gate, Gloucester.jpg|thumb|right|Statue at Gloucester of Bishop Hooper, with inscription,<br>
<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><ref name=NHL>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1245667|desc=Bishop Hooper's Monument|access-date=18 April 2019}}</ref>]]
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.
*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 College) 1538/9 to 1545.
*Details of trials, accounts of martyrdoms, letters from gaol, etc.
* Foxe often names his sources.
*Adult material.
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