ABSTRACT
The John Foxe project is more than half-way through its fifth year, and is approaching the second anniversary of its transfer to Sheffield. A routine example of John Foxe's technique is provided by the story of Rose Allin, the Suffolk girl burned in 1557. When Foxe compiled his original version in 1563, he recorded the examinations of the whole group, both in the Moot Hall at Colchester and in Colchester Castle, using the official records. Sir Edmond Tirrell is called 'Sir Edmund' in the caption to the woodcut in every edition, although in the copy of the first edition which Foxe presented to his old college, he had conscientiously altered 'Sir' to 'Mr.' in his own hand. Foxe's account of Anne Boleyn started in the 1559 edition of the Rerum in Ecclesia Gestarum, and was developed significantly in both 1563 and 1570.
