ABSTRACT
To compile an ecclesiastical history, John Foxe required a large set of sources. With the help of colleagues such as John Bale and Matthew Parker, Foxe was able to expand the small selection of sources that he had used for the first edition (1563) of the Acts and Monuments to a large array of sources, both contemporary and ancient, to make his case in the second edition (1570). This chapter looks at those sources and attempts to identify the copies that Foxe most likely used from the available evidence. It also examines the difficulty in extracting confirmation that any one source was used to compile any particular portion of the history. Finally, it looks at the sources themselves, examining their worth to Foxe and how he might have assessed their contents.
