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1Figure of Christ crucified, fifteenth-century, Sussex. Photograph by Don White.

2St James’ Church, Louth, Lincolnshire. Photograph by Panoramio.

3The elevation of the host at mass, from L’Art de bien vivre (Paris, 1492, Bibliothèque Nationale). akg-images.

4An early sixteenth-century printing press. Wikimedia Commons.

5Henry VII and Archbishop William Warham. The National Archives, E 33/2.

6The death of Richard Hunne, from John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments (1563). The Unabridged Acts and Monuments Online or TAMO (HRI Online Publications, Sheffield, 2011). http//www.johnfoxe.org.

7Thomas Bilney preaching in Ipswich, from John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments (1563). Rare Books & Manuscripts Library of the Ohio State University Libraries.

8Vicente Carducho, Prisión y muerte de los diez miembros de la cartuja de Londres (prison and death of the ten members of the London Charterhouse), 1632. Wikimedia Commons.

9The Valor Ecclesiasticus, 1535. The National Archives, E 344/22.

10Pontefract Castle, by Thomas Pennant (1726–98). Wikimedia Commons.

11Ruins of Much Wenlock Priory, Shropshire. Wikimedia Commons. Photograph by Tony Grist.

12Frontispiece to the Great Bible, 1539. © The British Library Board.

13The execution of Anne Askew, 1546, from John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments (1563). The Unabridged Acts and Monuments Online or TAMO (HRI Online Publications, Sheffield, 2011). http//www.johnfoxe.org.

14Title page of the Book of Common Prayer, 1549. Alamy.

15Hugh Latimer preaching before Edward VI, from John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments (1563). The Unabridged Acts and Monuments Online or TAMO (HRI Online Publications, Sheffield, 2011). http//www.johnfoxe.org.

16Thomas Cranmer renounces his recantations in St Mary’s Church, Oxford, 1556. Universal History Archive/Contributor.

17Cardinal Reginald Pole by Sebastiano del Piombo, c. 1545. Heritage Image Partnership Ltd./Alamy.

18 ‘A Show of the Protestants’ Pedigree’, from The apologie of Fridericus Staphylus, tr. Thomas Stapleton (Antwerp, 1565). © The British Library Board.

19The Pope’s bull of excommunication, from George Carleton, A Thankfull Remembrance of Gods Mercy (London, 1630). © The British Library Board.

20Elizabeth I at the opening of Parliament, from Simonds D’Ewes, A Compleat Journal of the Votes, Speeches and Debates, both of the House of Lords and the House of Commons Throughout the Whole Reign of Queen Elizabeth of Glorious Memory (London, 1693). Wikimedia Commons.

21Parish communion cup, Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire, c. 1580. Photograph by Eric Carlson.

22Edmund Campion SJ, engraved frontispiece for Campion, Decem rationes propositae in causa fidei et opuscula eius selecta Auctiori editione (Antwerp, 1631). © The British Library Board.