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vines, and endeavoured to conclude a treaty with them 
refpefting many articles of religion ; but after three 
month’s negociation, nothing was effefled. Tn the third 
volume of bifhop Burnet’s Hiftory of the Reformation, 
a particular account is given of this negociation. Bifhop 
Fox returned to England in 1536; and, after having en¬ 
joyed his epifcopate only two years and feven months, 
died at London in 1538. He was the author of a treatife 
De vera Differentia Regia Pctejiatis & Ecclcfaflicee, & qua 
ft-ipfa Veritas utriufquc, 1534, which was tranflated into 
Englifh by Henry lord Stafford. He alfo wrote Annota¬ 
tions upon Mantuan, the poet. In the account of Thomas 
lord Cromwell, in the fecond volume of Fox’s Afts and 
Monuments, there is extant an Oration of his ; and a 
joint Letter from him and Gardiner, concerning their pro. 
ceeaings at Cambridge, may be found in the collection of 
records at the end of the firlt volume of bifhop Burnet’s 
Hiftory of the Reformation. 
FOX (John), a learned Englifh divine, born at Bofton 
in Lincolnfhire, in 1317. At fixteen years of age he was 
entered at Brazen-no.fe college, Oxford; and having 
powerfully recommended himfelf to notice by his extra¬ 
ordinary proficiency, was elected a fellow of Magdalen 
college, and proceeded matter of arts in 1543. In his 
younger years he difcovered a genius for poetry, and 
wrote feveral Latin comedies, the fubjeCts of which were 
taken from facred hiftory. One of them, entitled De 
Chriflo triumphatite, was publifhed at London in 1551, and 
at Bafil in 1556, in oCtavo. It was afterwards tranflated 
into Englifh by Richard Day, fon of John Day, the famous 
printer in the reign of queen Elizabeth, and publifhed 
at London, in 1579. After flittering divers perfecutions 
for confluence fake, he was taken into the houfe of fir 
Thomas Lucy, of Warwickfhire, to be tutor to his chil¬ 
dren. He continued in fir Thomas’s family till his pupils 
were grown up; during which time he married the 
daughter of a citizen of Coventry. He was afterwards 
fo fortunate as to be taken into the duchefs of Richmond’s 
family, to educate the children of her brother, the famous 
Henry Howard earl of Surrey, who were intruded to her 
care when their father was lent by Henry VIII. to the 
Tower. 1 n this fituation he continued to live at Ryegate, 
in Surrey, during the remainder of Henry’s reign, the 
whole of that of Edward VI. and part of that of queen 
Mary, being protected in the latter period by the duke of 
Norfolk, who had been one of his pupils. Anthony Wood 
fays that he was reftored to his fellowfhip in Magdalen 
college under the reign of Edward VI. and he is re¬ 
ported to have been the firft perfon who preached the 
doCtrine of the reformers at Ryegate. While the per¬ 
fection againft the proteftants was raging under the reign 
of Mary, Gardiner bifhop of Winchefter was devifing 
means forfeizing Fox, which rendered it neceflary to pro¬ 
vide for his fafety by fending him abroad. He arrived 
with his wife, and lome other fugitives on account of 
their religion, at Nieuport in Flanders; whence they went 
to Antwerp, and Strafburgh, and afterwards to Bafil. 
At Bafil Mr. Fox gained a fubfiftence by correcting the 
prefs for Opoi inns, a celebrated printer ; and it was there 
that he formed the firft plan of his ACts and Monuments 
of the Church. He had before publifhed at Strafburgh, 
in 1554, Commentarii rerum in Ecclefa grfarum, ■maximarumque 
per totam Eurapam perfecutionum a Wiclevi Temporibus ad hanc 
ufque /Etatcm Defcriptarum , oCtavo, in one book ; to which 
he added five more books, which were all printed toge¬ 
ther at Bafil in 1559, in folio. During his refidence in 
Germany, likewile, Mr. Fox had united himfelf with 
thofe Englifh exiles who, inftead of the order of church 
government and difcipline appointed by king Edward’s 
Service-book, had adopted the conftitution followed by 
the Fr nch reformed churches, and that of Geneva. 
When by queen Elizabeth’s acceflion to the throne the 
proteftant religion was reftored in England, Mr. Fox re¬ 
turned to his native country, where he was received in 
the moft kind and friendly manner by his former pupil 
Vol.VII. No.455. 
the duke of Norfolk, who maintained him at his houfe as 
long as he lived, and at his death fettled a penfion upon 
him, which was confirmed by that nobleman’s fuceeffor, 
the earl of Suffolk. Mr. fecretary Cecil, likewife, ob¬ 
tained for him, of the queen, a prebend in the church of 
Salifbury, of which Mr. Fox would have declined the 
acceptance. He had alfo many other great and powerful 
friends, as the prelates Grindal, Pilkington, and Aylmer ; 
fir Francis Walfingham, fir Francis Drake, fir Thomas 
Grefham, &c. who would have raifed him to very conli- 
derable preferments ; yet he declined them, becaufe lie 
could not confcientioufly fubfcribe to the articles enforced 
by the ecclefiaftiCal commillioners, and difapproved of 
fome of the ceremonies of the church. He died in 1587, 
in the feventieth year of his age. Befides the pieces al¬ 
ready mentioned, he was the author of 1. De Cenfura, Jeu 
Excomminicatione Ecchfiafica , Interpellatio ad Archiepijcopum 
Canluarenfcm, 8vo. 1551. 2. Tables of Grammar, 1552. 
3. Articuli five Aphorifmi aliquot Joannis Wicklevi, fparfnnant 
ex variis i/lius Opufqulis excerpti per adnerfarios Papicolas ac 
Concilio Confantienfi exhibiti. 4. ColleElanea quadam ex Regi- 
naldi Pococki epifcopi Cicefricnfs opufculis exufis confervata, 
6? ex antiquo Pfegmate tranferipta. 5. Opiflographia ad Ox - 
onienfes, which, as well as the two preceding articles, 
were printed at Strafburgh in 1554, together with the au¬ 
thor’s Commentarii rerum, &c. 6. Locorum communivm logi- 
calium Tituli & Ordinationes 15O, ad Seriem preedicamentorum. 
decern deferipti, &c. 4to. 1557. 7. Eicafmi feu Meditationes 
in Apolypfn S. Johannis Apofoli et Evangelifa , folio, 1587. 
8 . Papa conjutatus, vel facra et apofolica Ecclefa Pap am con - 
futans. 9. Certain Notes of Election, added to Beza’s 
Treatife on Prcdeftination, 8vo. 1581. 10. The Four 
Evangelifts, in the old Saxon Tongue, with the Englifh 
Verfion added to it, 4to. 1571 ; and feveral Controverfial 
Pieces, Sermons, &c. But the author’s capital work is 
his laborious “ Hiftory of the A« 5 ls and Monuments of the 
Church,” commonly called Fox’s Book of Martyrs. It 
was publifhed at London, in 1563, in one volume, folio. 
In queen Elizabeth’s time, an order was made, that this 
book fliould be placed in the common-halls of the arch- 
bifhops, and of all bifhops, deans, archdeacons, heads of 
colleges, See. 
FOX (George), the founder of the fociety of Friends, 
commonly called Quakers, born at Drayton, in Leicefter- 
fltire, in 1624. His father was a weaver, much refpefted 
among his neighbours for his piety and many virtues ; 
and he appears early to have given to his fon’s mind a 
religious turn of thinking, and to have carefully educated 
him in fober and virtuous manners, and a gravity of de¬ 
portment. When lie was about nineteen years of age, he 
one day experienced much trouble of mind, on having 
obferved a difpofition to intemperance in fome perfons 
profefling to be religious, with whom he had gone into an 
alehoufe for refrelhment. During the following night he 
could not fieep, but employed himfelf in walking, and in 
prayer; and while thus engaged, his mind was wrought 
into a perfuafion that the following intelligence was com¬ 
municated to him, as the command of God : “ Thou 
feeft how young people go together into vanity, and old 
people into the earth ; and thou muft forfake all, both 
young and old, and keep out of all, and be as a ftranger 
unto all.” Upon this he immediately broke off his fami¬ 
liarity with both young and old, quitted his relations, and 
travelled about from place to place. At length his friends, 
hearing that he was in London, perfuaded him to return 
home, where they hoped they fliould be able to fettle him 
in fome regular courfe of employment. After (laying 
fome months with them, however, he again embraced his 
itinerant mode of life. He was accuftomed to faft much, 
and often walked abroad in retired places, with no other 
companion but his Bible. He would fometimes fit in a 
hollow tree all day, and frequently walk about the fields 
in the night, like a man polfetted of deep melancholy. 
Sometimes he employed himfe'f in going in fearch of fuch 
perfons as were noted for their extraordinary piety 5 and 
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