Fox's Book of martyrs : or, The acts and monuments of the Christian church : being a complete history of the lives, sufferings, and deaths of the Christian martyrs, from the commencement of Christianity to the present period : to which is added an account of the Inquisition, the Bartholomew massacre in France, the general persecution under Louis XIV, the massacres in the Irish rebellions in the years 1641, and 1798, rise, progress and persecutions of the people commonly called Quakers, together with an account of the western martyrology, or bloody assizes : with the lives of some of the early eminent reformers /

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