Tag: FOXE CHRISTIAN MARTYRS

  • Foxe’s Christian Martyrs (Part 9)

    ADAM WALLACE Adam Wallace was tried in the Blackfriars Church in Edinburgh before a large panel of priests, bishops, archbishops, professors, and civil authorities. His accuser was John Lauder, parson of Marbottle, clad in a surplice and red hood. Wallace looked like a simple, poor man when he was brought in. Lauder began: “Adam Wallace,…

  • Foxe’s Christian Martyrs (Part 8)

    ROBERT BARNS On his graduation from the University of Louvain, Robert Barns was made prior and master of Augstines at Cambridge. At that time little literature was taught at Cambridge, but Barnes introduced its study and produced many educated young men who were familiar with the works of Terence, Plautus, Cicero, and others. Once literature…