Short answers, pulled from the story.
John Foxe was born in Boston, Lincolnshire, England during the year 1516 or 1517. He spent his childhood hours inside church buildings praying or reading books with intense focus while other boys played outside.
John Foxe resigned from his college in 1545 because he had become a Protestant and opposed clerical celibacy which he described as self-castration. His refusal to attend mass required for all students made his position untenable under Henry VIII.
Mary I ascended to the throne in July 1553 ending Foxe's prospects and causing him to flee with his pregnant wife from Ipswich to Nieuwpoort then through Antwerp and Rotterdam. He reached Strasbourg by July 1554 where he published a Latin history of Christian persecutions that formed the first outline of Actes and Monuments.
The fourth edition published in 1583 contained two thousand folio pages making it the largest English book of its era. This publication followed earlier editions including one from August 1559 at Basel and an English edition on the 20th of March 1563 from John Day's press.
John Foxe died in 1587 after being appointed prebend of Shipton in Salisbury Cathedral on the 22nd of May 1563. He never visited the cathedral or performed duties except appointing vicar William Masters yet retained the position until death.