Foxe

[ foks ]

noun

1. John, 1516–87, English martyrologist.

Foxe

/ fɒks /

noun

1. FoxeJohn15161587MEnglishRELIGION: clergymanWRITING: author John . 1516–87, English Protestant clergyman; author of History of the Acts and Monuments of the Church (1563), popularly known as the Book of Martyrs

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His editor, Laing, bids us observe “that all these opprobrious terms are copied from Foxe, or rather from the black letter tract.”

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Knox acknowledges that he has here incorporated John Foxe's account of the trial of Wishart.

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"Foxe's Book of Martyrs," in the old church at dusk, might raise ugly phantoms which no bell or candle could lay.

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Bishop Foxe “had the manner of prelates,” says Melanchthon, and his learning did not impress the Germans.

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Bishop Foxe, selected as the theological ambassador, was instructed to take him presents to the value of £70.

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