. Historical portraits ... JOHN FOXE From tlie portrait in the National Portrait GalleryPainter unknown GEORGE WISHARTFrom the portrait belonging to Glasgow University /■ace /. 194 195 JOHN FOXE (1516-1587) the martyrologist, was born at Boston, Lines., educated atMagdalen College, Oxford, of which he became a Fellow in 1539,and early embraced extreme Protestantism. He became tutor tothe orphan sons of the Earl of Surrey (one of whom was theCathohc Duke of Norfolk, executed by Elizabeth), and was ordainedin the reign of Edward, fled abroad under Queen Mary, and,perhaps foreseeing what was comi
. Historical portraits ... JOHN FOXE From tlie portrait in the National Portrait GalleryPainter unknown GEORGE WISHARTFrom the portrait belonging to Glasgow University /■ace /. 194 195 JOHN FOXE (1516-1587) the martyrologist, was born at Boston, Lines., educated atMagdalen College, Oxford, of which he became a Fellow in 1539,and early embraced extreme Protestantism. He became tutor tothe orphan sons of the Earl of Surrey (one of whom was theCathohc Duke of Norfolk, executed by Elizabeth), and was ordainedin the reign of Edward, fled abroad under Queen Mary, and,perhaps foreseeing what was coming, published in 1554 an accountof the persecutions of the early reformers. This became the originof his more famous Ads and Monuments. Much controversytook place among the English exiles at Frankfurt and elsewhereas to the use of the Edwardian liturgy, and Foxe endeavoured tomediate between the parties of Knox and Cox. He continued tolabour at his work and by 1559 had brought it down to the endof Marys reign, and publis
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