BOOK OF MARTYRS,

OR,

A HISTORY

OF THE LIVES, SUFFERINGS, AND TRIUMPHANT DEATHS

OF THE

PRIMITIVE AND PROTESTANT MARTYRS,

FROM THE

INTRODUCTION OF CHRISTIANITY,

TO THE LATEST PERIODS OF

PAGAN, POPISH, PROTESTANT, AND INFIDEL

PERSECUTIONS.

EMBRACING,

Together with the usual subjects contained in similar works; the recent persecutions
in the Cantons of Switze.land; the persecutions of the Methodist and Baptist mis
sionaries in the West India Islands; and the narrative of the conversion, capture,
long imprisonment, and cruel sufferings of Asaad Shidiak, a native of Palestine.
Likewise, a sketch of the French Revolution, as connected with persecution.

COMPILED FROM FOX'S BOOK OF MARTYRS, AND OTHER

AUTHENTIC SOURCES.

BY AMOS BLANCHARD.

EMBELLISHED WITH TWENTY-FOUR ENGRAVINGS.

BUFFA O, N. Y.

PUBLISHED BY N. G. ELLIS,