Foxe's Book of Martyrs, A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Early Christian and the Protestant Martyrs vol 1

LibriVox recording of Foxe's Book of Martyrs Vol. 1, ed by William Byron Forbush, 1868 - 1927. Read by LibriVox volunteers, proofed by Heart of Texas, coordinated and produced by Karen Merline. The Book of Martyrs, by John Foxe, is an English Protestant account of the persecutions of Protestants, many of whom had died for their beliefs within the decade immediately preceding its first publication. It was first published by John Day, in 1563. Lavishly illustrated with many woodcuts, it was the largest publishing project undertaken in Britain up to that time. Commonly known as, "Foxe's Book of M