The Ecclesiasticall historie : containing the Acts and monuments of martyrs, with a generall discourse of these later persecutions, horrible troubles and tumults, stirred up by Romish prelates in the Church: with divers other things incident, especially to this Realme of England and Scotland, as partly also to all other forraigne nations appertaining, from the time of Q. Maries entring upon the Crowne, to the reigne of our late gracious Soveraigne, Q. Elizabeth of blessed memorie
John Foxe's Book of Martyrs, the 1641 London edition printed for the Stationers' Company, is a Protestant church history of persecuted believers in England and beyond, compiled for a Protestant English readership. The woodcuts show burnings at the stake, a preacher in a pulpit addressing a crowded congregation, and martyrs bound and kneeling among spectators, offering a designer dense, emotive crowd compositions and strong black-and-white woodcut contrast with flame and smoke.
