Foxe’s Book of Martyrs

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• Chapter 1—History of Christian Martyrs to the First General Persecutions Under Nero
• Chapter 2—The Ten Primitive Persecutions
• Chapter 3—Persecutions of the Christians in Persia
• Chapter 4—Papal Persecutions
• Chapter 5—An Account of the Inquisition
• Chapter 6—An Account of the Persecutions in Italy, Under the Papacy
• Chapter 7—An Account of the Life and Persecutions of John Wickliffe
• Chapter 8—An Account of the Persecutions in Bohemia Under the Papacy
• Chapter 9—An Account of the Life and Persecutions of Martin Luther
• Chapter 10—General Persecutions in Germany
• Chapter 11—An Account of the Persecutions in the Netherlands
• Chapter 12—The Life and Story of the True Servant and Martyr of God, William Tyndale
• Chapter 13—An Account of the Life of John Calvin
• Chapter 14—An Account of the Persecutions in Great Britain and Ireland, Prior to the Reign of Queen Mary I
• Chapter 15—An Account of the Persecutions in Scotland During the Reign of King Henry VIII
• Chapter 16—Persecutions in England During the Reign of Queen Mary
  • The Words and Behavior of the Lady Jane upon the Scaffold
  • John Rogers, Vicar of St. Sepulchre’s, and Reader of St. Paul’s, London
  • The Rev. Lawrence Saunders
  • The History, Imprisonment, and Examination of Mr. John Hooper, Bishop of Worcester and Gloucester
  • The Life and Conduct of Dr. Rowland Taylor of Hadley
  • Martyrdom of William Hunter
  • Dr. Robert Farrar
  • Martyrdom of Rawlins White
  • The Rev. George Marsh
  • William Flower
  • The Rev. John Cardmaker and John Warne
  • John Simpson and John Ardeley
  • Thomas Haukes, Thomas Watts, and Anne Askew
  • Rev. John Bradford, and John Leaf, an Apprentice
  • Rev. John Bland, Rev. John Frankesh, Nicholas Shetterden, and Humphrey Middleton
  • Dirick Carver and John Launder
  • John Denley, John Newman, and Patrick Packingham
  • W. Coker, W. Hooper, H. Laurence, R. Colliar, R. Wright and W. Stere
  • The Rev. Robert Samuel
  • Bishop Ridley and Bishop Latimer
  • John Lomas, Agnes Snoth, Anne Wright, Joan Sole, and Joan Catmer
  • Archbishop Cranmer
  • The Vision of Three Ladders
  • Hugh Laverick and John Aprice
  • Preservation of George Crow and His Testament
  • Executions at Stratford-le-Bow
  • Rev. Julius Palmer
  • Joan Waste and Others
  • Persecutions in the Diocese of Canterbury
  • Rev. John Hullier
  • Simon Miller and Elizabeth Cooper
  • Executions at Colchester
  • Mrs. Joyce Lewes
  • Executions at Islington
  • Mrs. Cicely Ormes
  • Rev. John Rough
  • Cuthbert Symson
  • Thomas Hudson, Thomas Carman, and William Seamen
  • The Story of Roger Holland
  • Flagellations by Bonner
  • Rev. Richard Yeoman
  • Thomas Benbridge
  • Mrs. Prest
  • Richard Sharpe, Thomas Banion, and Thomas Hale
  • J. Corneford, of Wortham; C. Browne, of Maidstone; J. Herst, of Ashford; Alice Snoth, and Catharine Knight, an Aged Woman
  • Deliverance of Dr. Sands
  • Queen Mary’s Treatment of Her Sister, the Princess Elizabeth
  • God’s Punishment upon Some of the Persecutors of His People in Mary’s Reign
• Chapter 17—Rise and Progress of the Protestant Religion in Ireland; with an Account of the Barbarous Massacre of 1641
• Chapter 18—The Rise, Progress, Persecutions, and Sufferings of the Quakers
• Chapter 19—An Account of the Life and Persecutions of John Bunyan
• Chapter 20—An Account of the Life of John Wesley
• Chapter 21—Persecutions of the French Protestants in the South of France, During the Years 1814 and 1820
• Chapter 22—The Beginnings of American Foreign Missions