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Referenced as 'the great volume recounting the Marian persecution of Protestants' in which Dee appears and is referred to as 'the great conjurer'

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Mentioned in discussion of Protestant martyrs burned at Smithfield - 'And the great theme of Fox's Book of Martyrs, this sense that the revival of Catholicism would mean Protestants being burnt in Smithfield, haunted the imaginings of Protestants throughout the late 16th, 17th century.'