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Coat of arms of the crusader Melchior Asinari. Engraving.

Reference

555252i

The history of the Lancashire witches. Containing the manner of their becoming such; their Enchantments, Spells, Revels, merry Pranks, raising of Storms and Tempests, riding on Winds, &c. The Entertainment and Frolicks which happened among them. With the loves and Humours of Roger and Dorothy. Also, A Treatise of Witches in General Conducive to Mirth and Recreation. The like never before Published.

Date

1785?]

Theatre des martyrs = Schau-Buhne der Martyrer : depuis la mort de J. Christ jusqu'à present, représenté en tres belles tailles-douces / par le celebre graveur Jean Luyken. Schau-Buhne der Martyrer, gezeichnet und in Kuppfer gestochen von Johann Luyken.

Date

[between 1698 and 1738]

Apostolici: or, the history of the lives, acts, death, and martyrdoms of those who were contemporary with, or immediately succeeded the Apostles. As also the most eminent of the primitive fathers for the first three hundred years. To which is added, A chronology of the three first ages of the church. By William Cave, DD.

Date

MDCCXVI. [1716]

The spirit of the martyrs revived, in a brief compendious collection of the most remarkable passages and living testimonies of the true Church, seed of God, and faithful martyrs in all ages: Contained in several Ecclesiastical Histories, and Chronological Accounts, of the Succession of the True Church, from the Creation, the Times of the Fathers, Patriarchs, Prophets, Christ and the Apostles.

Date

1719

Saint Andrew holding his cross with another saint seated on a cloud behind him. Etching by G. Bonasone after Michelangelo, 1541.

Reference

23011i

The book of martyrs: or, compleat history of martyrdom, from the crucifixion of our blessed Saviour, to the present times. Vol. I.

Date

MDCCLXV. [1765]

St. Agatha; East Window of St. Peter Hungate, Norwich

Saint John the Evangelist watches an angel giving robes to martyrs. Woodcut.

Reference

25028i

The Virgin of Mercy responding to the intercessions of saints by protecting people from arrows symbolising disease; the Devil rules below, where plague attacks the land. Lithograph after L. Dottorini after Benedetto Bonfigli, 1464 (?).

Date

1800-1899

Reference

21419i