John Foxe the Martyrologist and His Family Author(s): William Winters Source: Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Vol. 5 (1877), pp. 28-82+424 Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Royal Historical Society Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3677947 Accessed: 27-06-2016 08:48 UTC Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://about.jstor.org/terms JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. Royal Historical Society, Cambridge University Press are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Transactions of the Royal Historical Society This content downloaded from 129.219.247.33 on Mon, 27 Jun 2016 08:48:31 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms 28 JOHN FOXE THE MARTYROLOGIST AND HIS FAMILY. BY WILLIAM WINTERS, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. FROM the commencement of the reign of Queen Elizabeth down to the middle of the last century, several members of the Foxe family, descendants of the great martyrologist, resided in the parish of Waltham Holy Cross.* And it is asserted by several local writers that the justly celebrated John Foxe himself resided in this ancient town, where he uninterruptedly pursued his literary labours during the early part of the latter half of the sixteenth century.