After she came to the place where she should be executed, and a Monke there had brought out a blynd Crosse, willyng her many tymes to kysse and worship her God:MarginaliaWodden Gods not to be worshipped. I worshyp (sayd she) no wooden God, but onely that God which is in heauen: and so with a mery and ioyfull countenaūce, she went to the stake, desiryng the executioner, to see the stake to be fast, that it fall not: then takyng the pouder and laying it to her brest, she gaue her necke willyngly to be bound, with an ardent prayer commendyng her selfe to the handes of God. When the tyme came that she should be strāgled, modestly she closed her eyes, & bowed downe her head, as one that would take a sleape: which done the fire then was put to the wood, and she beyng strangled, was burned afterward to ashes, in stead of this lyfe to get the immortall crowne in heauen. an. 1527. Ex Pantal.

MarginaliaPetrus Flistedius, Adolphus Clarebachus, Martyrs. IN the number of these Germane Martyrs, are also to be comprehended Peter Flisteden and Adolphe Clarebach, two men of singular learnyng, & hauyng rype knowledge of Gods holy word. Which two, in the yeare of our Lord. 1529. for that they did dissent frō the Papistes in diuers pointes, & specially touchyng the Supper of the Lord, and other the popes traditions & ceremonies, after they had endured imprisonment a yeare and halfe, by the commaundemēt of the Archbyshop and Senate, were put to death and burned in Colen, not without the great grief and lamētation of many good Christians,MarginaliaThe bloud of Martyrs spilte to stoppe the sweating sickenes at Colen. all the fault beyng put vppon certaine Diuines, which at that tyme preached that the punishmēt and death of certaine wicked persons, should pacifie the wrath of God, which then plagued Germany greuously with a new and straunge kynde of disease: For at that season, the sweatyng sicknes dyd mortalie rage and reigne throughout all Germany. Ex Commenta. Ioan. Sled. Lib. 6.

¶ A Preface to the Table folowyng.  

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This was the first of an elaborate series of tables, indicative of Foxe's strong preference (inherited from Matthias Flacius Illyricus and John Bale) for tabulating and 'cataloguing' material in a systematic and taxonomic fashion. These pages required considerable sophistication of his printer since they are elaborately ruled and divided into columns and rows that embrace woodcut engravings, allow room for marginal glosses and include catch-words. The table, introduced in the 1570 edition of the martyrology for the first time, enabled Foxe to broaden the chronological scope of the initial accounts which he had included in 1563. Although Foxe occasionally mentions the martyrologies of Adriaen van Haemstede and Ludwig Rabus, there is no evidence that he consulted either of them directly. Almost all the material was derived from Pantaleon (see the individual biographical entries for precise details), occasionally Sleidan and the Latin edition of Crespin.

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IF thou well remember in readyng this booke of storyes (louyng reader) it was before mentioned and declared pag. 816. how in in the yeare of grace. 1501. certaine prodigious markes and printes of the Lordes passion, as the crowne, crosse, nayles, scourges, & speare were sene in Germanie, vpon the garmentes of men, & women. Which miraculous ostēt passing the ordinarie course of naturall causes, as it was sent of God, no doubt, to foreshew the great & terrible persecution, which afterward fell in the countrey of Germany and other regions besides, for the testimonie of Christ: so if the number & names of all those good men & women, which suffered in the same persecution, with their Actes & doings should be gathered & compiled together, it would aske a lōg tyme, & a large volume. Notwithstandyng, partly to satisfie the history which we haue in hand, partly also to auoyde tedious prolixitie, I thought briefly to contract the discourse therof, drawyng, as in a compendious Table, the names of the persecutours, & of the Martyrs which suffered, and the causes wherfore, in as much shortnes as I may, referryng the full tractation of their lyues & doynges to those writers of their owne countrey, where they are to be read more at large. And to keepe an order in the same Table, as much as in such a confused heape of matters I may, according to the order and distinction of the countreys, in which these blessed Saintes of Christ did suffer: I haue so diuided the order of the Table in such sort, as first to begyn with them that suffred in Germany, then in Fraunce, also in Spayne, with other forein countreys mo,Marginalia The Dutch Martyrs.
The French Martyrs.
The Spanishe Martyrs.
The Englishe Martyrs. shewyng onely the names with the principall matters of them, referryng the rest to the further explication of their owne Storywriters, from whence they be collected. The which Table being finished, my purpose is (Christ willyng) to returne to the full history of our own matters, & Martyrs which suffered here in England.

☞ Of diuers which suffered in Germany for the witnes of the Gospel, partly some rehearsall is made before, as of Voes, and Esch, of Sutphen, Iohn Castellane, Pet. Spengler, with a certaine godly Minister, and an other simple man of the countrey mentioned in Oecolampadius: Also of them in Diethmar and Prage, of M. George of Hala, Gaspar Tambert, Georgius of Vienna, Wolfgangus Schuch, Iohn Huglius, George Carpenter, Leonard Keyser, Wendelmuta, P. Flistede, Adol. Clarebach. and other moe. The residue folow in order of this Table here to be shewed.