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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I have been reading Fox's Book of Martyrs - not straight forward; but choice parts, it is a very interesting Book The account of the deaths of Ridley and Latimer (espec...Dorothy Wordsworth John FoxBook of MartyrsPrint: Book
1800-1849I have read Foxes book of Martyrs & finished it todayJohn Clare John FoxeFoxes Book of MartyrsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Foxe's "Book of Martyrs" was another feast for us.'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes John FoxeBook of MartyrsPrint: Unknown
1700-1799"W[ordsworth] read the copy [of John Foxe, Acts and Monuments of Matters most Special and Memorable] preserved today in the Hawkshead Grammar School Library ..."William Wordsworth John FoxeActs and Monuments of Matters Most Special and Mem...Print: Book
1500-1599'and then I read of the book of marters and so went to bed'Margaret Hoby John FoxeBook of Martyrs (the title by which Foxe's Acts an...Print: Book
1500-1599'and then hard one of the men read of the book of marters, and so went to bed'Margaret Hoby John FoxeBook of Martyrs (the title by which Foxe's Acts an...Print: Book
1500-1599'after the Lector I hard Helurn read of the Book of marters, and talked with Mr Rhodes, and so went to bed'Margaret Hoby John FoxeBook of Martyrs (the title by which Foxe's Acts an...Print: Book
1500-1599'hard one of the men reade of the book of marters, and so went to bed'Margaret Hoby John FoxeBook of Martyrs (the title by which Foxe's Acts an...Print: Book
1500-1599'and after that I hard one of the men read of the book of Marters, and so went to bed'Margaret Hoby John FoxeBook of Martyrs (the title by which Foxe's Acts an...Print: Book
1900-1945'When they were alone at home [Edna Bold] and her cousin Dorothy extracted from the kitchen bookcase and read side by side, a medical book and Foxe's Book of Martyrs....Edna Bold and her cousin DorothyJohn FoxeFoxe's Book of MartyrsPrint: Book
1850-1899"Angela Brazil ... was considerably disturbed by the pictures in [Foxe's Book of Martyrs]..."Angela Brazil John FoxeBook of Martyrs
1850-1899'The only books I remember seeing as a small child were an old copy of Foxe's "Book of Martyrs" and one of the Bible, including the Apocrypha, brought out of their hiding...Thomas Okey John FoxeBook of MartyrsPrint: Book
1600-1699'after, I wrought and hard one read of the book of Marters'Margaret Hoby John FoxeBook of Martyrs (the title by which Foxe's Acts an...Print: Book
1600-1699'I stayd till noone readinge in the Booke of Martirs'.Roger Lowe John FoxeBook of Martyrs Print: Book
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1700-1799		[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she ...Elizabeth Lyttelton John FoxeBook of MartyrsPrint: Book
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1700-1799		Written in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand a translation of John Foxe's 'The Epitaph upon that Blessed Martyr Walter Mill at St Andrews in Scotland.' Elizabeth Lyttelton John FoxeBook of MartyrsPrint: Book
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1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of John Foxe, 'The Prayer of Luther at his death'.Elizabeth Lyttelton John FoxeThe Prayer of Luther at his deathPrint: Book
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1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of John Foxe, 'The usuall Prayer of Docter Martyn Luther'.Elizabeth Lyttelton John FoxeThe usuall Prayer of Docter Martyn LutherPrint: Book
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1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of John Foxe, 'Accounts of the deaths of Jan Huss and Jerome of Prague'.Elizabeth Lyttelton John FoxeAccounts of the deaths of Jan Huss and Jerome of P...Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat prairs I went about the house and wrought amonge my Maides, and hard one read of the Booke of Marters'John FoxeBook of Martyrs (the title by which Foxe's Acts an...Print: Book


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