John Foxe
(1516-1587)

Died aged c. 71

John Foxe (1516/1517 – 18 April 1587), an English historian and martyrologist, was the author of Actes and Monuments (otherwise Foxe's Book of Martyrs), telling of Christian martyrs throughout Western history, but particularly the sufferings of English Protestants and proto-Protestants from the 14th century and in the reign of Mary I. The book was widely owned and read by English Puritans and helped to mould British opinion on the Catholic Church for several centuries.

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Here stood the birthplace of John Foxe the martyrologist 1516-1587

The Stump and Candle, Boston, United Kingdom where they was born (1516)