John Foxe

1516/17–1587

Introduction

Foxe's Papers

A large collection of Foxe's papers is preserved in the British Library (Harley MSS 416-26, 590, 783, and Lansdowne MSS 335, 353, 388-9, 819, 1045). It contains various materials relating to his work as a martyrologist and includes a number of drafts of original writings. The contents of the manuscripts in this collection are to some extent analyzed in the published catalogues of the Harley and Lansdowne Manuscripts.

There is no complete bibliography of Foxe's published and unpublished writings. Some of Foxe's works are cited in nineteenth-century editions of Actes and Monuments; a list of his minor works is supplied in Mozley, pp. 243-5; and a list of works ascribed to Foxe, including lost or unidentified items which might still be among his papers, appears in John Bale, Scriptorum illustrium Maioris Brytanniae catalogus (Basle, 1557), pp. 733-4. Entries are given below to manuscripts of identified works by Foxe which have been published or discussed in print. Apart from a single unpublished item (FxJ 12), the remaining heterogeneous material is briefly summarized in the Miscellaneous section below (FxJ 21-6).

Other theological or historical manuscripts which were owned or used by Foxe can be found in the Bodleian (MS Auct. F. 5. 26) and at Trinity College, Cambridge (manuscripts B. 2. 7 (James 50); B. 2. 35 (James 78); and B. 3. 34, 35 (James 113-14)). His annotated printed exemplum of Jan Hus et al., Historia et monumenta, prima pars (Nuremberg, 1558), which also contains notes by Lancelot Andrewes (see *AndL 58), is at Pembroke College, Cambridge (4. 11. 22-3). The detached title-leaf of a printed exemplum of Paulus Constantinus Phrygio, Chronicum regum (1534), bearing the signature Joh. Foxii — probably Foxe's, though the leaf was once owned by the forger J.P. Collier — is in the Folger (MS X. d. 459 (6)).

Letters

Foxe's letter to Sir William Cecil (6 July 1568) requesting special permission to have Actes and Monuments printed by more than four printers is in Lansdowne MS 10 (ff. 211-12v). Other letters of Foxe, apart from those in the main collection of his papers, and not given separate entries, can be found in the following repositories:

Bodleian Library (MSS Rawl. C. 936, ff. 6r-11r; Rawl. D. 825, f. 47r). British Library (Add. MSS 19400, f. 97r; 34727, ff. 2r-3v).Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (MS 114, No. 198, p. 537).Lambeth Palace (MS 2019, ff. 1r-2v): a joint petition to Archbishop Parker in favour of religious toleration, signed by Foxe, Miles Coverdale and other clerics, 20 March 1564/5. This was sold at Sotheby's, 15 October 1963, lot 516, to H.P. Kraus. Magdalen College, Oxford: the letter accompanying the printed exemplum of Actes and Monuments (1563) that Foxe presented to his old college. Reproduced in Josiah Pratt's edition, I (1870), facing p. 42. Staatsarchiv, Zürich (E II 375, 580-4): six letters, dated 1559. Edited in translation in The Zurich Letters, ed. Hastings Robinson, Parker Society 7 (Cambridge, 1842), pp. 22, 25-6, 35-8, 41-3.University of Basle (Ki.-Ar. 18a, 181: a letter to Boniface Amerbach, 25 November 1556, originally accompanying a presentation exemplum of Locorum communium tituli (Basle, 1557). Edited in Original Letters relative to the English Reformation, Second portion, ed. Hastings Robinson, Parker Society 28 (Cambridge, 1847), p. 767).Zentralbibliothek, Zürich (Ms. F 62, f. 411: to Heinrich Bullinger, 21 January 1559).

Several of Foxe's letters in the main manuscript collection are edited in Pratt's edition of Actes and Monuments, in the appendices of Vol. I. Part of the letter in Harley MS 416, f. 157r, is reproduced in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate LXV(c). A facsimile of part of another letter in Latin is in Frederick G. Netherclift, The Hand-Book to Autographs (London, 1862), No. 15.

Some later transcripts of letters by Foxe are in the following repositories:

Bodleian Library (Rawlinson K (Hearne) 45, f. 4v).
Bradford Archives (32D86/19, f. 37r-v).
Cambridge University Library (MS Mm. 1. 42, pp. 55, 82).
Lambeth Palace (MS 2010, f. 117r).
The Queen's College, Oxford (MS 284, f. 41r).

Printed Books

Exempla of Foxe's printed Pandectae locorum communium, a huge commonplace book (published in 1572 and 1585) based on one by Philip Melanchthon, consisting of a preface, an index, and subject headings at the top of blank leaves, can be found in British Library, Add. MS 6038, with extensive notes by Sir Julius Caesar, which he finished 12 December 1629; British Library, Harley MS 783, with manuscript entries possibly by Samuel Foxe; and in Cambridge University Library, MS Mm. 3. 7, with anonymous entries.

Foxe's Actes and Monuments — popularly known as The Book of Martyrs — was one of the most popular books of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and was frequently quoted in commonplace books and miscellanies, a number of which are recorded below (FxJ 1-1.9). Yet more examples, not given entries here, are references to the work in legal documents. The exemplum of the first edition of Actes and Monuments (1563) which the printer, John Day, presented to King's College, Cambridge, is still preserved there (pressmark M. 33. 59) but now lacks the title-leaf.

Another printed book once owned by Foxe is in the Pierpont Morgan Library. It is a Bible (1571) with his inscription on the title page Ex dono Reverendiss. in Chro pris Matthaei Cantuariensis Archiepi 1571. For some further light on Foxe's books and manuscripts see Ralph Hanna, An Oxford Library Interlude: The Manuscripts of John Foxe the Martyrologist, Bodleian Library Record, 17/5 (April 2002), 314-26.

Abbreviations

Mozley: J. F. Mozley, John Foxe and his Book (London, 1940).
Smith, ELR, 1 (1971): John Hazel Smith, John Foxe on Astrology, English Literary Renaissance, 1 (1971), 210-25.

Verse

Ad Iesum Christum Filium Dei: Carmen Eucharisticon ('Christe. aeterna Dei progenies patris')

First published in John Hazel Smith, Notes on Two Renaissance Authors, in Brandeis Essays in Literature, ed. John Hazel Smith (Waltham, Mass., 1983), pp. 25-36 (pp. 25-9).

FxJ 0.3 c.1545

Fragment of a two-line unfinished autograph rough draft of early Latin verses written by Foxe at Magdalen College, Oxford.

Edited from this MS in Hazel Smith.

A folio composite volume of papers.

A composite volume of papers, including a life of Foxe by his son Samuel Foxe (ff. 2-52), Foxe's autograph drafts of letters and other writings composed while he was a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford [1544-5] (ff. 53v-148), Foxe's autograph extracts from a book by John Purvey on the Eucharist (ff. 166-75), and letters and exercises by Samuel Foxe (ff. 184-250).

Formerly owned by John Strype.

This MS analysed in A Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum, Part II (London, 1819), pp. 112-13. For individual works see FxJ 2, FxJ 4-6, FxJ 8, FxJ 17, and FxJ 20.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 388 f. 78r)

'Integer mentis fide fultus alta'

Six Horation quatrains. First published in John Hazel Smith, Notes on Two Renaissance Authors, in Brandeis Essays in Literature, ed. John Hazel Smith (Waltham, Mass., 1983), pp. 25-36 (pp. 25-9).

*FxJ 0.5 c.1545

Autograph

Autograph rough draft of early Latin verses written at Magdalen College, Oxford.

Edited from this MS in Hazel Smith.

A folio composite volume of papers.

Formerly owned by John Strype.

This MS analysed in A Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum, Part II (London, 1819), pp. 112-13. For individual works see FxJ 2, FxJ 4-6, FxJ 8, FxJ 17, and FxJ 20.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 388 f. 79r)

'Maximus Aurorae custos lectique relictor'

A fourteen-line epigram about the schoolmaster John Harley. First published in John Hazel Smith, Notes on Two Renaissance Authors, in Brandeis Essays in Literature, ed. John Hazel Smith (Waltham, Mass., 1983), pp. 25-36 (pp. 25-9).

*FxJ 0.8 c.1545

Autograph

Autograph rough draft of early Latin verses written at Magdalen College, Oxford.

Edited from this MS in Hazel Smith.

A folio composite volume of papers.

Formerly owned by John Strype.

This MS analysed in A Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum, Part II (London, 1819), pp. 112-13. For individual works see FxJ 2, FxJ 4-6, FxJ 8, FxJ 17, and FxJ 20.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 388 ff. 59r)

Prose

Actes and Monuments

First published (complete) in London, 1563. Edited by Josiah Pratt, 8 vols (London, 1853-70).

FxJ 1

Copy of an abbreviated version, closely written in a single cursive predominantly secretary hand, transcribed from a printed edition, imperfect, lacking the beginning and end, c.240 folio leaves, in vellum boards, inscribed on the cover in red ink Acts and Monuments of the Christian Martrs.

Early 17th century

Coppenheim & Co., sale catalogue No. II (1924), item 160.

University of Chicago (MS 115)

FxJ 1.1

Extracts, relating to the reign of Edward III.

A folio composite volume of antiquarian tracts, letters and notes, in various hands and paper sizes, 111 leaves.

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 1139 f. 106r-v)

FxJ 1.12

A volume comprising last speeches and prayers of martyrs as extracted from Foxe and others, inscribed finished by Elizabeth Curtis, March 20^th, 1699-1700.

c.1700

Durham Cathedral Library (Hunter MS 112)

FxJ 1.125

An extensive series of extracts.

Separately categorized as EL 2033-2047, 2049-2063, 2067.

A large folio volume of prose tracts, verse, and devotional material, in a single secretary hand but for a series of engrossed indentures in a formal professional hand on ff. 3r-17v, written from both ends (ff. 1r-84v and ff. 1a^r-51a^v respectively), 134 leaves in all.

c.1603

Inscribed names Gilbert Rye and William Norris and a reference (on f. 6a^v) to Doctor Gylbart.

The entries were at one time given separate library EL numbers ranging (intermittently) from EL 1183c to EL 6172 at one end and from EL 1183a to EL 6206 from the reverse end.

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks A through E (EL 6162 passim)

FxJ 1.13

Extracts.

A folio volume of state papers, 298 leaves, in modern red morocco gilt.

Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 533, Vol. 5 f. 19r et passim)

FxJ 1.135 Early-mid 17th century

Extracts, in a professional mixed hand, untitled, comprising the Bishop of Winchester's letter to the Lord Protector.

A folio composite volume of state letters, papers and proceedings in Parliament, in various hands, 570 leaves, in red morocco gilt.

Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 538, Vol. 17 ff. 80r-4v)

FxJ 1.14

Extracts, in a mixed hand, with inscriptions in the margin Apud Foxum vol 3 fo 977 and vol 3 fo 542 A^o 1555.

A folio composite volume of state letters, papers and proceedings in Parliament, in various hands, 570 leaves, in red morocco gilt.

Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 538, Vol. 17 ff. 534r-8r)

FxJ 1.145

Extracts.

A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, over 500 leaves.

Formerly belonging to Sir Andrew Fountaine of Narford. Among the manuscripts of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.

Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix, pp. 364-7.

The Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall (MS 677 ff. 496r-8r)

FxJ 1.15

Various extracts.

A folio volume of state tracts, speeches, and verse, closely written from both ends in a single hand, 260 pages, lacking a number of pages and some fragments (pp. 25-38, 48-64) now removed to MS Gg. 4. 13*, in quarter-calf.

Mid-17th century

Cambridge University Library, shelfmarks G through L (MS Gg. 4. 13 pp. 157-205 passim)

FxJ 1.153

An alphabetical index to part of Foxe's work, in a secretary hand with engrossed lettering, inscribed 1632. John foxe: Vol: i. fol: 337 et 338, seven + i small folio leaves, unbound.

1632

Northamptonshire Record Office (FH 4218)

FxJ 1.155

Extracts.

An octavo volume of extracts chiefly from classical and Renaissance historical works, in vellum boards.

Mid-17th century

University College London (MS Ogden 7/24 passim)

FxJ 1.16

A book of sayings of 16th-century English martyrs, much taken from Foxe.

17th century

University of Birmingham (MS 13/i/19)

FxJ 1.165

Manuscript of a paraphrase of the work, entitled The Lives of the English Martyrs epitomized, 317 leaves.

c.1750

University of California at Los Angeles (170/439)

FxJ 1.17

A MS abridgement, predominantly in a single hand, with additions in a subsequent hand, dated 23-30 March 1668, on 42 folio leaves (rectos only), in later boards.

Headed a Short epitomy of the first Booke of Martyrs, with references to Halsted in Kent and, on the last page, to an incident in Oxford.

March 1668

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 274)

FxJ 1.175

Extracts, headed Book of Martyrs. Henry y^e 8th: 1509.

An octavo commonplace book of extracts from religious texts under headings, in English and Latin, 91 leaves (including blanks), now disbound in folders.

c.1630

Inscribed (p. 1) Ex do: p: G.C. By: 1630: i.e. George Coke, rector of Bygrave (in 1608-36). The name John Coke among scribbling on f. 91v, and Ex libris Gab: Barrevi [? or Barron ?]. July 1964 on front flyleaf.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 387 ff. 75r-84v)

FxJ 1.18

Extracts.

A folio volume relating to Chester.

17th century?

Formerly owned by G.F. Wilbraham, of Delamere House.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 416.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Chester MS] [unspecified page numbers])

FxJ 1.2

Extracts, together with extracts from Holinshed's Chronicles, with a preliminary table of contents.

A folio volume of historical material relating to London, iv + 112 leaves.

Late 16th century

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Gough London 8 f. 13v et seq.)

FxJ 1.3

Extracts.

MS of An Essay towards the Recovery of the Four Great Roman Ways by Roger Gale (1672-1744).

Early 18th century

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. D. 400 ff. 99r-100r)

FxJ 1.4

Extracts. Early 18th century.

A folio composite volume of tracts and miscellaneous collections, in various hands, 383 leaves, in contemporary reversed calf.

Owned in 1730, and largely compiled as Vol III of his collections, by the Rev. John Lewis (1675-1747), of Margate. Owned in 1749 by Thomas Lewis. Acquired from Peter Thompson.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. D. 787 f. 319r)

FxJ 1.5

Extracts.

A duodecimo notebook of miscellaneous extracts and of memoranda relating to Pembroke College, Cambridge, compiled probably by Nathaniel Gibson.

c.1650s

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 21070 f. 37r et seq.)

FxJ 1.6 c.1581

Extracts made by Sir Thomas Tresham, in preparation for his defence in Star Chamber, 1581, and elsewhere.

A double-folio composite volume of historical and theological tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 214 leaves, mounted on guards, in half green morocco.

Volume III of the papers of Sir Thomas Tresham (1543-1605), of Rushton Hall, Northamptonshire, recusant.

c.1600

Presented by T.B. Clarke-Thornhill.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 39830 passim after f. 49r)

FxJ 1.7

Extracts.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous historical material, in various hands, c.105 leaves.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1 through 999 (Harley MS 785 ff. 76-9v)

FxJ 1.8

Extracts.

A duodecimo miscellany principally of pious, holy Godly and Christian Letters, in a single italic hand, with (ff. 200r-5r) a Table, 209 leaves, in modern half-crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Compiled by Nehemiah Wallington (1598-1658), puritan London turner and diarist.

Including (ff. 34r-51v) Some Epiesels or Letters of Ios Hall D of Diuinitie and Deane of Worchester in 1620, transcribed from the edition of Hall's collected works printed in 1620, with a note at the end Their be many more excellent letters in D Halls Booke which I let passe for preuitis sake.

c.1635-58

Inscribed (f. 1v) Nehemiah Wallington his Booke 1650; (f. 5v) Nehemiah Wallington May 1650; (f. 205v) 1658 Iune y^e xxiii By the marcy of God I haue read ouer this my Writing Booke which is Coppies of precious Lettres..., and (f. 209v) Nehemiah Wallingtoⁿ his Booke 1635. Also inscribed (f. 1v) by his son-in-law Ionathan Houghton September IX 1658.

Recorded in Paul S. Seaver, Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London (Stanford, 1985).

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 922 ff. 3r-34r)

FxJ 1.9

Extracts.

An octavo notebook of extracts, in a single small mixed hand, written from both ends, 165 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Compiled by one William Bright, entitled ffragmenta hic omnigena è varijs excerpta authoribus ad priuatum existunt vsum WB ex anno 1644.

c.1644-76

Inscribed also inside the lower cover Will: Bright Novemb 12^th pretiu 8^d 1645.

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 5000 through 6999 (MS Add. 6160 f. 50r-v)

An omnis mundi inferioris gubernatio ab influentiis dependent coelestibus

First published, with a translation, in Smith, ELR, 1 (1971), 210-25.

*FxJ 2

Autograph

Autograph treatise on astrology written while Foxe was a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; one in a series of Letters & Writings of J. Fox in y^e University.

Edited from this MS in Smith.

A folio composite volume of papers.

Formerly owned by John Strype.

This MS analysed in A Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum, Part II (London, 1819), pp. 112-13. For individual works see FxJ 2, FxJ 4-6, FxJ 8, FxJ 17, and FxJ 20.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 388 ff. 62-5)

Book of Martyrs

See FxJ 1-1.9.

Commentarii rerum in ecclesia gestarum

First published in Strasbourg, 1554.

*FxJ 3

Autograph

Autograph draft of a Latin account of John Wicliffe and his followers, with deletions and revisions, untitled, with his original dedication to a patron (Duke Christopher of Würtemberg), 120 duodecimo leaves, in wrappers from a ?15th-century document, within modern quarter-calf marbled boards.

c.1554

This account first published in Commentarii rerum (1554). It was later translated into English and incorporated in Actes and Monuments.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 335)

De contemnendis opibus

Unpublished.

*FxJ 4

Autograph

Autograph inspirational piece written while Foxe was a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; one in a series of Letters & Writings of J. Fox in y^e University.

Recorded in Smith, ELR, 1 (1971), 211.

A folio composite volume of papers.

Formerly owned by John Strype.

This MS analysed in A Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum, Part II (London, 1819), pp. 112-13. For individual works see FxJ 2, FxJ 4-6, FxJ 8, FxJ 17, and FxJ 20.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 388 ff. 92v-100)

De re eucharistica

Unpublished. Recorded in John Bale, Scriptorum illustrium (Basle, 1557), p. 733.

*FxJ 5

Autograph

Autograph; one in a series of Letters & Writings of J. Fox in y^e University.

This MS recorded in Mozley, p. 245.

A folio composite volume of papers.

Formerly owned by John Strype.

This MS analysed in A Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum, Part II (London, 1819), pp. 112-13. For individual works see FxJ 2, FxJ 4-6, FxJ 8, FxJ 17, and FxJ 20.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 388 ff. 175-82)

De regno clauuium disputatio adversus perturbatas conscientias

Unpublished.

*FxJ 6

Autograph

Autograph inspirational piece written while Foxe was a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; one in a series of Letters & Writings of J. Fox in y^e University.

Recorded in Smith, ELR, 1 (1971), 211.

A folio composite volume of papers.

Formerly owned by John Strype.

This MS analysed in A Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum, Part II (London, 1819), pp. 112-13. For individual works see FxJ 2, FxJ 4-6, FxJ 8, FxJ 17, and FxJ 20.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 388 ff. 105-10)

De tota sacramenti eucharistiae causa

Unpublished.

*FxJ 7

Autograph

Autograph translation into Latin of Thomas Cranmer's Answer unto a Crafty and Sophistical Cavillation.

[1556-7]

Discussed in Mozley, p. 56.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1 through 999 (Harley MS 418)

[Digest of Erasmus's Querimonia pacis]

Unpublished.

*FxJ 8

Autograph

Autograph, written while Foxe was a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; one in a series of Letters & Writings of J. Fox in y^e University.

Recorded in Smith, ELR, 1 (1971), 211.

A folio composite volume of papers.

Formerly owned by John Strype.

This MS analysed in A Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum, Part II (London, 1819), pp. 112-13. For individual works see FxJ 2, FxJ 4-6, FxJ 8, FxJ 17, and FxJ 20.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 388 ff. 66-71)

Expostulatio Jesu Christi cum humano genere

Unpublished. Recorded in John Bale, Scriptorum illustrium (Basle, 1557), p. 733, as Expostulationem Christicum homine.

*FxJ 9

Autograph

Autograph.

This MS recorded in Mozley, p. 243.

Composite volume of Foxe's papers.

c.1550

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1 through 999 (Harley MS 423 ff. 129r-47r)

Pandectae locorum communium

See Introduction.

Papa confutatus

First published in London, 1580.

*FxJ 10

Autograph

Autograph.

Composite volume of theological tracts; imperfect.

[1580]

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 353 ff. 225-384)

Praefationis operibus D. Johann Chrysostomi praemittendae

First published in Opera D. Ioannis Chrysostomi, Vol. I (Basle, 1557).

*FxJ 11

Autograph

Autograph Latin preface to an edition of the works of St Chrysostom.

A composite folio volume of Foxe's papers.

[1557]

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1 through 999 (Harley MS 416 ff. 148r-9r)

[Preface]

Unpublished.

FxJ 12

Autograph untitled preface, beginning Although y^e studious mynd of thys godly brother coopiler hereof…, inscribed in a later hand Fox's Preface to a Book.

Facsimile in IELM, I.ii (1980), Facsimile XV (p. 95).

A composite folio volume of Foxe's papers.

[1557]

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1 through 999 (Harley MS 416 f. 145r)

Reformatio legum ecclesiasticarum

First published in London, 1571.

*FxJ 13

Autograph

Copy of canon laws, formerly belonging to Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, with Foxe's autograph annotations; used for Foxe's edition of the Reformatio.

[1571]

This MS discussed in Mozley, p. 80.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1 through 999 (Harley MS 426)

Rerum in ecclesia gestarum commentarii

See FxJ 3.

A Sermon of Christ Crucified

First published in London, 1570.

FxJ 14

Notes of Foxe's sermon on 24 March 1569/70, headed M^r foxe at paules crosse in good frydaye the xxiiii of februari anno 1570 and inscribed getherde bi the p^son of S agnes and corrected by master fox.

A composite folio volume of papers of John Foxe.

c.1570

Partly once owned by John Strype (1643-1737), ecclesiastical historian and biographer.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1 through 999 (Harley MS 425 ff. 131v-3v)

Syllogisticon, hoc est argumenta...de re et materia sacramenti eucharistici &c

First published in London, [1560-4?].

FxJ 15

Copy, as per Jo. Foxum, in a neat roman hand, with a formal title-page Syllogisticon. hoc est: Argvmenta sev Probationes & Resolutiones...De re materia Sacramenti Eucharistici. Cum Epistola ad Papistas hortatoria.

Mid-16th century

Christ Church, Oxford (MS 140)

Tables of Grammar

First published in 1552 (no exemplum extant).

*FxJ 16

Autograph

Autograph page of Latin grammar with an English explanation, probably used in the compilation of Foxe's Table of Grammar.

A composite volume of papers relating to Foxe and his descendants.

A composite volume of papers collected by John Strype, consisting chiefly of documents relating to Foxe and his descendants, particularly concerning property, from 1584 to 1654, including (f. 95) a list of books and manuscripts belonging to Foxe.

c.1551-2

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 819 f. 90)

[Tract on Rhetoric and Dialectics]

Unpublished.

*FxJ 17

Autograph

Autograph, written while Foxe was a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; one in a series of Letters & Writings of J. Fox in y^e University.

Recorded in Smith, ELR, 1 (1971), 211.

A folio composite volume of papers.

Formerly owned by John Strype.

This MS analysed in A Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum, Part II (London, 1819), pp. 112-13. For individual works see FxJ 2, FxJ 4-6, FxJ 8, FxJ 17, and FxJ 20.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 388 ff. 71v-7v)

Dramatic works

Christus triumphans

First published in Basle, 1556. Edited, with a translation, by John Hazel Smith in Two Latin Comedies by John Foxe the Martyrologist (Ithaca & London, 1973), pp. 199-371.

*FxJ 18

Autograph

Autograph draft, with extensive revisions.

This MS collated in Smith, with a facsimile of f. 132r on p. 201. Facsimile of f. 132r also in DLB, vol. 132, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. First Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1993), p. 138.

Composite volume of MSS.

c.1556 or [1658-9]

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 1045 ff. 132r-55)

*FxJ 19

Autograph

Exemplum of the edition of 1556 containing MS annotations, possibly used as a prompt book for a production (at Oxford or Cambridge?).

c.1562?

Formerly *53-1371.

This item collated in Smith, p. 376 et seq.

Harvard, other MSS (*EC F8364 556c)

Titus et Gesippus

First published, with a translation, in Two Latin Comedies by John Foxe the Martyrologist, ed. John Hazel Smith (Ithaca & London, 1973), pp. 50-197.

*FxJ 20

Autograph

Autograph draft, with extensive revisions, written while Foxe was a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; one in a series of Letters & Writings of J. Fox in y^e University.

Edited from this MS in Smith, with a facsimile of f. 121r on p. 53.

A folio composite volume of papers.

Formerly owned by John Strype.

This MS analysed in A Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum, Part II (London, 1819), pp. 112-13. For individual works see FxJ 2, FxJ 4-6, FxJ 8, FxJ 17, and FxJ 20.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 388 ff. 121-46, 112-16)

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous Papers

*FxJ 21

Autograph

A large collection of Foxe's papers.

A large collection of Foxe's papers bound in ten volumes, consisting of numerous letters, notes, transcripts and theological tracts, some autograph, some in other hands, many relating to his work as a martyrologist.

16th century

Once owned by John Strype (1643-1737)

These MSS analysed in A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1808), I, 236-50, 359. For individual works see FxJ 9, FxJ 11, FxJ 12, FxJ 14.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1 through 999 (Harley MSS 416-417, 419-425, 590)

*FxJ 22

Autograph

A folio composite volume of papers.

Formerly owned by John Strype.

This MS analysed in A Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum, Part II (London, 1819), pp. 112-13. For individual works see FxJ 2, FxJ 4-6, FxJ 8, FxJ 17, and FxJ 20.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 388)

*FxJ 23

Autograph

A bound collection of Foxe's papers, consisting of documents and transcripts used in the writing of Actes and Monuments, most of them being edited in that work.

16th century

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 389)

*FxJ 24

Autograph

A composite volume of papers relating to Foxe and his descendants.

c.1551-2

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 819)

FxJ 25 Mid-late 16th century

Five items apparently owned and used by Foxe; corresponding to Nos 3, 4, 5, 17 (part), and 18 in a list of 23 Manuscripts out of John Fox his study (f. 29r): namely, the historical documents on ff. 389r-90r, 481r-8r, 391r-426r, 4r-13x, and 431r-70v respectively.

The list of Foxe's MSS is printed in J. Conway Davies, Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple (London, 1972), I, 43-4. The contents of the volume are analysed in this catalogue, Vol. II, 847-57.

A folio composite volume of state letters and tracts, in various hands, 488 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco gilt.

Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 538, Vol. 46 passim)

FxJ 26

Fourteen items owned and used by Foxe; corresponding to Nos 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17 (part), 19 (possibly), and 22 in a list of 23 Manuscripts out of John Fox his study (Petyt MS 538, Volume 46, f. 29r): namely, the historical documents on ff. 303-14r, 364x-72v, 392r-3v, 1r-11v, 353r-63r, 394r-5r, 390r, 389r, 415r-16r, 398r-406r, 66r-8r, 410r-14r, 397r (possibly), and 410r respectively.

A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 592 leaves, in red morocco gilt.

Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 538, Vol. 47 passim)

John Foxe

Introduction

Foxe's Papers

Letters

Printed Books

Abbreviations

Verse

Prose

Dramatic works

Miscellaneous

Contents