[1] Bennet published in 1561, at the press of John Awdelay, a volume of translations from the German and Swiss Protestant reformers, A Famous and Godly History.
It contains Philip Melanchthon's life of Martin Luther; Luther's declaration of his doctrine before the Emperor Charles V at Worms; and the oration of Melanchthon at Wittenberg, given in place of his usual exposition of the Epistle to the Romans, after the news of Luther's death.
[1] Some of this part was adapted for Actes and Monuments (1563) by John Foxe.
[3] The second part has a similar dedication to James Blount, 6th Baron Mountjoy, dated 30 November 1561.
[1] The authors in the second part had first been brought together by Theodore Bibliander, though Bennet probably used the anonymous French compilation : Histoire des vies et faits de trois excellents personnages, premiers restaurateurs de l’évangile (1555).