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Eighty Christian ministers are burnt to death on the order of Emperor Valens in a boat with Roman soldiers looking on from the safety of an adjacent boat. Etching.
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Eighty Christian ministers are burnt to death on the order of Emperor Valens in a boat with Roman soldiers looking on from the safety of an adjacent boat. Etching.

Unknown artist

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Lettering: Engraved for the Revd. Dr. Southwell's New Book of Martyrs. Fourscore Christian ministers burnt together in a ship by order of the Emperor Valens.

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