Protestantism in England From the Times of Henry VIII - James Aitken Wylie

a leech for blood. Fox, who is blamed for
"persecuting persecutors with ugly pictures"--
though certainly Fox is not to blame if ferocity and
sensuality print their uncomely lineaments on their
rotaries--describes him as the possessor of a great,
overgrown, and bloated body. Both Gardiner and
Bonner, the two most conspicuous agents in the
awful tragedies of the time, had been supporters of
the royal supremacy, which formed a chief count in
the indictment of the men whom they were now
ruthlessly destroying.
The devoted, painstaking, and scrupulously
faithful Fox has recorded the names and deaths of
the noble army of sufferers with a detail that
renders any lengthy narrative superfluous; and next
to the service rendered to England by the martyrs
themselves, is that which has been rendered by
their martyrologist. Over all England, from the
eastern counties to Wales on the west, and from the
midland shires to the shores of the English
Channel, blazed these baleful fires. Both sexes, and
all ages and conditions, the boy of eight and the
man of eighty, the halt and the blind, were dragged
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