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John Foxe: a biography

by Tom Freeman

John Foxe (1517-1587) was born in Boston, Lincolnshire in 1517. His father, of whom little is known, may have been related to Henry Foxe, an affluent merchant who became Mayor of the town in 1551. He died while John was very young, and his mother subsequently married Richard Melton, a prosperous yeoman of the nearby village of Conningsby. John Hawarden, a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, became rector of Conningsby in 1533, and about 1534 John Foxe entered Brasenose, where his room mate was Alexander Nowell, the future Dean of St Pauls. Three decades later Foxe was to dedicate a work to Hawarden, thanking him for making his university career possible.

Magdalen College

Although he took his bachelor's degree on 17th July 1537, it is not clear how long Foxe remained at Brasenose. He may have taught for a time at Magdalen College School, because he became a probationer Fellow at Magdalen in July 1538, and a full Fellow a year later. In 1539-40 he was a College Lecturer in logic, and in July 1543 proceeded Master of Arts. During this ti

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(1) John Foxe, Foxe's Book of Martyrs(1563)

By reading this history, a person should be able to see that the religion of Christ, meant to be spirit and truth, had been turned into nothing but outward observances, ceremonies, and idolatry. We had so many saints, so many gods, so many monasteries, so many pilgrimages. We had too many churches, too many relics (true and fake), too many untruthful miracles. Instead of worshipping the only living Lord, we worshipped dead bones; in place of immortal Christ, we worshipped mortal bread.
No care was taken about how the people were led as long as the priests were fed. Instead of God's Word, man's word was obeyed; instead of Christ's testament, the pope's canon. The law of God was seldom read and never understood, so Christ's saving work and the effect on man's faith were not examined. Because of this ignorance, errors and sects crept into the church, for there was no foundation for the truth that Christ willingly died to free us from our sins - not bargaining with us
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John Foxe
Early Life
Foxe was a native of Boston, Lincolnshire, born around 1516. His father died during Foxe’s early youth, and his mother married for a second time, to a substantial yeoman named Richard Melton, from Conningsby. Foxe moved to Conningsby, and there he came to the attention of the rector, John Hawarden, a Fellow, and subsequently Principal, of Brasenose College, Oxford.
Hawarden, who was considered to be rather a difficult man – he was later exhorted by the College’s Visitor to display more charity towards his pupils – obviously thought well of the young Foxe, and exerted pressure on Melton to allow Foxe to enrol at Brasenose in 1534. His room-mate there was Alexander Nowell, who was to be Dean of St Paul’s and a close associate of Foxe.
By 1538, Foxe had moved to Magdalen College (the alma mater of Thomas Wolsey). He was elected a Fellow in 1539, and graduated MA. It was during his years at Magdalen that Foxe began to question traditional Catholic orthodoxy. His deep study of the Bible made him suspect to the college authorities, who accused him of be