The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe: A New and Complete Edition: With a Preliminary Dissertation, by the Rev. George Townsend ...; Volume 1

by John Foxe

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1004 pages, Paperback

Published October 27, 2022

About the author

John Foxe was born at Boston, in Lincolnshire, in 1516, and died April 8, 1587. He is most famous for is publication of “Foxe’s Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church” more commonly known as “Foxe’s Book of Martyrs”.

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