¶ The names of the Martyrs in this booke conteined, namely such as haue suffred most terrible Martyrdome for the fayth and hope they had in the redēption of our Lord and Sauiour Iesu Christ, frō the first beheadyng of Iohn Baptist to this present, as well vnder the Iewes as Emperours, and lately vnder the Turke, and last of all vnder the Pope: Albeit not in so ample maner as that the names of all and euery Martyr here were to be required: For such was the tyranny in the time of the x. first persecutions, specially in the last persecution vnder Dioclesian, that xxx. thousand were Martyred in one day, whose names are not expressed, and likewise many thousandes in sondry places were Martyred, whose names neither are in this Table comprehended nor in any other to be numbred. Howbeit to satisfie some part of the readers expectiation, in comprehendyng such as storyes and Registers would giue vs, I haue collected this Table in forme of the Alphabete as foloweth.