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
Fragment of a two-line unfinished autograph rough draft of early Latin verses written by Foxe at Magdalen College, Oxford. c.1545.
In: 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.
Edited from this MS in Hazel Smith.
‘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
Autograph rough draft of early Latin verses written at Magdalen College, Oxford. c.1545.
In: the MS described under FxJ 0.3.
Edited from this MS in Hazel Smith.
‘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
Autograph rough draft of early Latin verses written at Magdalen College, Oxford. c.1545.
In: the MS described under FxJ 0.3.
Edited from this MS in Hazel Smith.
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.
FxJ 1.1
Extracts, relating to the reign of Edward III.
In: A folio composite volume of antiquarian tracts, letters and notes, in various hands and paper sizes, 111 leaves.
FxJ 1.12
A volume comprising last speeches and prayers of martyrs as extracted from Foxe and others, inscribed ‘finished by Elizabeth Curtis, March 20th, 1699-1700’. c.1700.
FxJ 1.125
An extensive series of extracts.
In: 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. 1ar-51av respectively), 134 leaves in all. c.1603.
Inscribed names ‘Gilbert Rye’ and ‘William Norris’ and a reference (on f. 6av) 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.
Separately categorised as EL 2033-2047, 2049-2063, 2067.
FxJ 1.13
Extracts.
In: 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
Extracts, in a professional mixed hand, untitled, comprising the Bishop of Winchester's letter to the Lord Protector. Early-mid 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of state letters, papers and proceedings in Parliament, in various hands, 570 leaves, in red morocco gilt.
FxJ 1.14
Extracts, in a mixed hand, with inscriptions in the margin ‘Apud Foxum vol 3 fo 977’ and ‘vol 3 fo 542 Ao 1555’.
In: the MS described under FxJ 1.135.
FxJ 1.145
Extracts.
In: 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.
FxJ 1.15
Various extracts.
In: 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, 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.
FxJ 1.155
Extracts.
In: An octavo volume of extracts chiefly from classical and Renaissance historical works, in vellum boards. Mid-17th century.
FxJ 1.16
A book of sayings of 16th-century English martyrs, much taken from Foxe. 17th century.
FxJ 1.165
Manuscript of a paraphrase of the work, entitled ‘The Lives of the English Martyrs epitomized’, 317 leaves. c.1750.
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.
FxJ 1.175
Extracts, headed ‘Book of Martyrs. Henry ye 8th: 1509’.
In: 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.
FxJ 1.18
Extracts.
In: 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.
FxJ 1.2
Extracts, together with extracts from Holinshed's Chronicles, with a preliminary table of contents.
In: A folio volume of historical material relating to London, iv + 112 leaves. Late 16th century.
FxJ 1.3
Extracts.
In: MS of An Essay towards the Recovery of the Four Great Roman Ways by Roger Gale (1672-1744). Early 18th century.
FxJ 1.4
Extracts. Early 18th century.
In: 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.
FxJ 1.5
Extracts.
In: A duodecimo notebook of miscellaneous extracts and of memoranda relating to Pembroke College, Cambridge, compiled probably by Nathaniel Gibson. c.1650s.
FxJ 1.6
Extracts made by Sir Thomas Tresham, in preparation for his defence in Star Chamber, 1581, and elsewhere. c.1581.
In: 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.
FxJ 1.7
Extracts.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous historical material, in various hands, c.105 leaves.
FxJ 1.8
Extracts.
In: 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. c.1635-58.
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’.
Inscribed (f. 1v) ‘Nehemiah Wallington his Booke 1650’; (f. 5v) ‘Nehemiah Wallington May 1650’; (f. 205v) ‘1658 Iune ye 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).
FxJ 1.9
Extracts.
In: 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 12th pretiu 8d 1645’.
An omnis mundi inferioris gubernatio ab influentiis dependent coelestibus
First published, with a translation, in Smith, ELR, 1 (1971), 210-25.
*FxJ 2
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 ye University’.
In: the MS described under FxJ 0.3.
Edited from this MS in Smith.
Book of Martyrs
See FxJ 1-1.9.
Commentarii rerum in ecclesia gestarum
First published in Strasbourg, 1554.
*FxJ 3
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.
De contemnendis opibus
Unpublished.
*FxJ 4
Autograph inspirational piece written while Foxe was a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; one in a series of ‘Letters & Writings of J. Fox in ye University’.
In: the MS described under FxJ 0.3.
Recorded in Smith, ELR, 1 (1971), 211.
De re eucharistica
Unpublished. Recorded in John Bale, Scriptorum illustrium (Basle, 1557), p. 733.
*FxJ 5
Autograph; one in a series of ‘Letters & Writings of J. Fox in ye University’.
In: the MS described under FxJ 0.3.
This MS recorded in Mozley, p. 245.
De regno clauuium disputatio adversus perturbatas conscientias
Unpublished.
*FxJ 6
Autograph inspirational piece written while Foxe was a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; one in a series of ‘Letters & Writings of J. Fox in ye University’.
In: the MS described under FxJ 0.3.
Recorded in Smith, ELR, 1 (1971), 211.
De tota sacramenti eucharistiae causa
Unpublished.
*FxJ 7
Autograph translation into Latin of Thomas Cranmer's Answer unto a Crafty and Sophistical Cavillation. [1556-7].
Discussed in Mozley, p. 56.
[Digest of Erasmus's Querimonia pacis]
Unpublished.
*FxJ 8
Autograph, written while Foxe was a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; one in a series of ‘Letters & Writings of J. Fox in ye University’.
In: the MS described under FxJ 0.3.
Recorded in Smith, ELR, 1 (1971), 211.
Expostulatio Jesu Christi cum humano genere
Unpublished. Recorded in John Bale, Scriptorum illustrium (Basle, 1557), p. 733, as ‘Expostulationem Christicum homine’.
*FxJ 9
Autograph.
In: Composite volume of Foxe's papers. c.1550.
This MS recorded in Mozley, p. 243.
Pandectae locorum communium
See Introduction.
Papa confutatus
First published in London, 1580.
*FxJ 10
Autograph.
In: Composite volume of theological tracts; imperfect. [1580].
Praefationis operibus D. Johann Chrysostomi praemittendae
First published in Opera D. Ioannis Chrysostomi, Vol. I (Basle, 1557).
*FxJ 11
Autograph Latin preface to an edition of the works of St Chrysostom.
In: A composite folio volume of Foxe's papers. [1557].
[Preface]
Unpublished.
FxJ 12
Autograph untitled preface, beginning ‘Although ye studious mynd of thys godly brother coopiler hereof…’, inscribed in a later hand ‘Fox's Preface to a Book’.
In: the MS described under FxJ 11. [1557].
Facsimile in IELM, I.ii (1980), Facsimile XV (p. 95).
Reformatio legum ecclesiasticarum
First published in London, 1571.
*FxJ 13
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.
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 ‘Mr foxe at paules crosse in good frydaye the xxiiii of februari anno 1570’ and inscribed ‘getherde bi the pson of S agnes and corrected by master fox’.
In: A composite folio volume of papers of John Foxe. c.1570.
Partly once owned by John Strype (1643-1737), ecclesiastical historian and biographer.
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.
Tables of Grammar
First published in 1552 (no exemplum extant).
*FxJ 16
Autograph page of Latin grammar with an English explanation, probably used in the compilation of Foxe's Table of Grammar.
In: 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.
[Tract on Rhetoric and Dialectics]
Unpublished.
*FxJ 17
Autograph, written while Foxe was a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; one in a series of ‘Letters & Writings of J. Fox in ye University’.
In: the MS described under FxJ 0.3.
Recorded in Smith, ELR, 1 (1971), 211.
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 draft, with extensive revisions.
In: Composite volume of MSS. c.1556 or [1658-9].
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.
*FxJ 19
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.
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 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 ye University’.
In: the MS described under FxJ 0.3.
Edited from this MS in Smith, with a facsimile of f. 121r on p. 53.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous Papers
*FxJ 21
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.
*FxJ 23
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.
FxJ 25
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. Mid-late 16th century.
In: A folio composite volume of state letters and tracts, in various hands, 488 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco gilt.
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.
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.
In: A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 592 leaves, in red morocco gilt.
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, 857-83.