Keywords: Latimer Ridley Foxe burning.jpg Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley martyred by being burnt at the stake John Foxe's book of martyrs 1563 edition When looking at these images which portray ideas such as martyrdom it is always interesting to know how historical the depiction is in this case less than ten years after the event An X marks the spot in Broad St Oxford where they were burnt when it was the Town Ditch outside the walls St Michael at the Northgate is now hidden behind a row of houses and it is in this Saxon Tower http //www smng org uk/ that the two martyrs were imprisoned before being burnt You will notice a Saxon tower their prison in the background of the print Oxford City Museum shows a barbican at this point in the walls in a map of 1578 So by and large this seems to show it like it was place of discovery object history exhibition history credit line accession number place of creation https //www johnfoxe org/woodcuts/f1805ins5 gif Image Foxe's Book of Martyrs - Latimer Ridley jpg PD-old Foxe's Book of Martyrs 1555 Christianity in the United Kingdom Stake in engravings Executions in England History of Oxford Nicholas Ridley Hugh Latimer |