Authority Cited: Fox [Foxe]
Author name and dates: John Foxe (1516/17–1587)
BKG Bio-tweet: Protestant, left Oxford; fled to Europe from Mary I; controversial history of martyrs; SJ quotes on Latimer in etym. “trump”
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Fox cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No Fox cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict.]
Author name and dates: John Foxe (1516/17–1587)
BKG Bio-tweet: Protestant, left Oxford; fled to Europe from Mary I; controversial history of martyrs; SJ quotes on Latimer in etym. “trump”
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Fox cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No Fox cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict.]
- The Tenoure and Effecte of certayne Sermons made by Maister Latimer in Cambridge about the year of our Lord 1529 in Acts & Monuments (Book of Martyrs); Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the church with an universal history of the same: wherein is set forth at large, the whole race and course of the church, from the primitive age to these later times of ours, with the bloody times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions against the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperors, as now lately practiced by Romish prelates, especially in this realm of England and Scotland : now again, as it was recognized, perused, and recommended to the studious reader, the ninth edition. 1684, London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, p.1733. OR The book of martyrs: containing an account of the sufferings and death of the Protestants in the reign of Queen Mary the First. Illustrated with copper-plates. Originally written by Mr. John Fox: and now revised and corrected by an impartial hand. 1732, London : printed and sold by John Hart and John Lewis in Bartholomew Close near West-Smithfield, p.430; trump (Dict.: "Corrupted from triumph. Latimer, in a Christmas sermon, exhibited a game at cards, and made the ace of hearts triumph. Fox." [BKG Note: SJ perhaps recalls another passage or does not remember correctly, or perhaps an earlier edition used "triumph." See the images of the 1684 and 1732 editions below for the passage cited by SJ that refers to the use by Latimer of a card game with hearts as trump in the etymology for one sense of trump.]
- Foxe (no work cited);
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