John Foxe
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16th-century English historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Foxe was an English clergyman, theologian, and historian, notable for his martyrology Actes and Monuments , 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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