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Heads that Rolled

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The Books of the Martyrs

A collection of 17th century works by and about those who suffered for their religious beliefs in the religio-political upheavals during and after the Protestant Reformation in England

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CONTENTS:

INDEX OF CONTENTS (A-M) The Authors and Those they Wrote About

INDEX OF CONTENTS (N-Z)                      -----------"-----------

BACKGROUND DETAILS About this Collection

HENRY VIII Herbert of Cherbury's biography of the man who started it all

THE GUNPOWDER PLOT

MAURUS SCOTT A Catholic Martyr (d. 1612)

JOHN WILSON Catholic Martyrologist

CHARLES I (PART ONE) Works about, or Relating to, Charles I

CHARLES I (PART TWO) Works by, or Attributed to, Charles I

WILLIAM LAUD Archbishop of Canterbury during the Reign of Charles I

ISAAC AMBROSE AND HENRY BURTON Two Puritan Divines

ROBERT BARCLAY AND FRANCIS HOWGILL Two Quaker Apologists

CLARKE'S MARTYROLOGY (PART ONE) Mainly martyrs of former ages

CLARKE'S MARTYROLOGY (PART TWO) The tribulations of the Puritans

CHRISTOPHER LOVE A Presbyterian Minister, Executed under Cromwell

THE "POPISH PLOT" A Concocted Conspiracy

ALGERNON SIDNEY Regarded as a Martyr to the Republican Cause

JOHN ASHTON AND RICHARD GRAHAM Two Protestant Jacobites

 

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