FOX. 333 burning or banging, pointed out, when the design of invading and over-running England should be accom- plished.* By order of Queen Elizabeth, Mr. Fox's History of the Martyrs was placed in the common halls of archbishops, bishops, deans, archdeacons, and heads of colleges, and in all churches and chapels throughout the kingdom+ On the accession of Queen Elizabeth, our learned divine returned from exile, and was cordially received and cour- teously entertained by his noble pupil, the Duke of Norfolk ;t who maintained him at his house, and settled a pension upon him at his death. Afterwards, in 1572, when this unhappy duke was beheaded on Tower-hill, for his treasonable connections with the Queen of Scots, Mr. Fox and Dr. Nowell, dean of St. Paul's, attended him upon the scaffold.4 Mr. Fox lived many years highly esteemed and favoured by persons of quality. Bishops Grindal, Parkhurst, Pilk- ington, and Aylmer ; also Sir Francis Walsingham, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Thomas Gresham, and many others, were his powerful friends. By their influence, they would have raised him to the highest preferment; but, as he could not subscribe, and disapproved of some of the ceremonies, he modestly declined their offers. Indeed, he was offered almost any preferment he pleased, but was more happy in declining them, excepting a prebend in the church of Salisbury.) For the space of three years after his return from exile, Mr. Fox had no preferment whatever : and in a letter to his friend Dr. Lawrence Humphrey, he says, " I still " wear the same clothes, and remain in the same sordid con- " dition that England received me in, when I first came " from Germany : nor do I change my degree or order, " which is that of the mendicants, or, if you will, of the Churton's Life of Nowell, p. 271, 212. + Mr. Fox's Acts and Monuments of the Martyrs, and Bishop Jewel's Reply to Harding, continued to be thus honoured till the time of Archbishop Laud. This domineering prelate no sooner understood that the learned authors maintained, " That, the communion table ought to stand among the people in the body of the church, and not altar-wise, at one end of it," than he was displeased, and ordered their books to be taken out of the churches.--Wood's dthenre,vol. i. p. 187.-PrInne's Cant. Downs, p. 85. Strype's Annals, vol. i. p. 132. § Churton's Life of Nowell , p. 208. 11 Wood's Athena Oxon. vol. i. p. 1£36. 1
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