LIVES OF THE PURITANS. afterwards Bishop of London ;s Mr. Edmund Grindal, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury ; and Mr. Thomas Norton, afterwards a celebrated lawyer, member of parlia- ment, and a noted puritan, who married the only daughter of Archbishop Cramer. From the last of these, our author is said to have derived the greatest assistance.+ It also appears that Grindal, besides his constant counsel and advice in the course of the work, supplied our author with numerous materials, which, when he had digested and me- thodized them, were of great use to him. During Grindal's exile, he established a correspondencein England for this purpose, bywhich means, accounts of most of the acts and sufferings of those who were persecuted in Queen Mary's reign, came to his hands ; and it is said to have been owing to Grindal's strict and tender regard to truth, thatthe work was so long in hand ; for he rejected all common reports and relations that were carried over, till more satisfactory evidence could be procured. It was by his advice, that Mr. Fox at first printed separately the acts of some parti- cular persons, of whom any sure and authentic memoirs came to hand, till materials for a more complete history of the martyrs, with their persecutions and sufferings, could be obtained. In pursuance of this advice, Mr. Fox pub- lished at Basil, various histories of the English bishops and divines, in single pieces, soon after their respective persecu- tions and martyrdoms. Mr. Fox at first undertook to publish his laborious work in Latin ; but by the advice of Grindal, it was printed in Latin and. English, for more general usefulness. It was published in London in 1563, in one thick volume folio, with this title, tc Actes and Monuments of these latter perillous days touching matters of the Churche, wherein are comprehended and described the great persecutions and horrible troubles that have beenwrought and practised by the Romish prelates speciallye in this realme of England and Scotland, from the yeare of our Lorde a thousand unto the time now present," &c. A fourth edition was printed in London in 1583, in two volumes folio, and it was re- printed in 1632, in three volumes folio. The ninth edition was printed in London in 1684, in three volumes folio, with copper cuts, the former editions having only wooden ones.t. Strype's Aylmer, p. 11. + MS. Chronology, vol. i. p. 243 (2), 243 (3.) $ Bing. Britan. vol. iii. p. 2022, 2023. Edit. 1747.-Wood's Athena Oxon. vol. i. p. 187.
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