OR,

A HISTORY

OF THE

LIVES, SUFFERINGS, AND TRIUMPHANT DEATHS,

OF THE

PRIMITIVE AS WELL AS PROTESTANT

MARTYRS:

FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF CHRISTIANITY,

TO THE

LATEST PERIODS OF PAGAN AND POPISH PERSECUTION.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

AN ACCOUNT OF THE INQUISITION, THE BARTHOLOMEW MASSACRE IN FRANCE,
THE GENERAL PERSECUTION UNDER LOUIS XIV., THE MASSACRE IN THE
IRISH REBELLION, IN THE YEAR 1641, AND THE KECENT

PERSECUTIONS OF THE PROTESTANTS IN THE SOUTH
OF FRANCE.

"Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles.". -Matt. vii. 18.

ORIGINALLY COMPOSED BY THE

REV. JOHN FOX, M. A.

AND NOW IMPROVED BY IMPORTANT ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS, BY

REV. CHARLES A. GOODRICH.

EMBELLISHED WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS.

HARTFORD:

EDWIN HUNT, No. 6 ASYLUM STREET.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year, 1843, BY J. SEYMOUR BROWN,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Connecticut.