FOXE

John, an English Church historian, born in 1517, died in 1587. He studied at Oxford, and was elected a fellow of Magdalen in 1543, form which he was expelled two years later on a charge of heresy. In the reign of Edward VI he was restored to his fellowship, but during Mary’s reign again went abroad, to Basel. On the acce ion of Elizabeth he returned to his native country, and was received in the most friendly manner by his former pupil, the Duke of Norfolk, who settled a pension on him. Secretary Cecil also obtained for him a prebend in the church of Salisbury; and he might have received much higher ore ferment if he would have subscribed to the articles enforced by the ecclesiastical commi ioners. His principal work is the History of the Acts and Monuments of the Church, commonly called Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, first printed in 1563, in one volume folio. An edition of this work, by Stoughton, appeared in 1877.