List of Protestant martyrs of the English Reformation (original) (raw)
Protestants in England and Wales were executed under legislation that punished anyone judged guilty of heresy against Catholicism. Although the standard penalty for those convicted of treason in England at the time was execution by being hanged, drawn and quartered, this legislation adopted the punishment of burning the condemned. At least 280 people were recognised as burned over the five years of Mary I's reign by contemporary sources.
An important year in the English Reformation was 1547, when Protestantism became a new force under the child-king Edward VI, England's first Protestant ruler. Edward died at age 15 in 1553. His relative Lady Jane Grey claimed the throne but was deposed by Edward's Catholic half-sister, Mary I.[1]: 62
The relationship between the English church and Rome was restored at the accession of Queen Mary I to the English throne in 1553. With her repeal of all religious legislation passed under Edward VI, Protestants faced a choice: exile, reconciliation/conversion, or punishment.[2]: 186 Many people were exiled, and hundreds of dissenters were burned at the stake, earning her the nickname of "Bloody Mary".[3] The number of people executed for their faith during the persecutions is thought to be at least 287, including 56 women.[4] Thirty others died in prison.[5]: 79
Although the so-called "Marian Persecutions" began with four clergymen, relics of Edwardian England's Protestantism,[2]: 196 Foxe's Book of Martyrs offers an account of the executions, which extended well beyond the anticipated targets – high-level clergy. Tradesmen were also burned, as well as married men and women, sometimes in unison, "youths" and at least one couple was burned alive with their daughter.[2]: 196 The figure of 300 victims of the Marian Persecutions was given by Foxe[6] and later by Thomas Brice in his poem, "The Regester".[7]
However bloody the end, the trials of Protestant heretics were judicial affairs, presided by bishops (most notably Bishop Bonner) adhering to a strict legal protocol under the privy council, with Parliament's blessing.[2]: p.195 Mary had difficulty forming an efficient Privy Council, which eventually numbered over 40 and never worked as a source of political advice, though it effectively pursued police work and enforcement of religious uniformity.[1]: 62–65 During the session that restored the realm to papal obedience Parliament reinstated the heresy laws.[2]: 196 From 20 January 1555, England could legally punish those judged guilty of heresy against the Roman Catholic faith.[5]: 91
Thus it became a matter of establishing the guilt or innocence of an accused heretic in open court – a process which the lay authorities employed to reclaim "straying sheep" and to set a precedent for authentic Catholic teaching.[5]: 102 If found guilty, the accused were first excommunicated, then handed over to the secular authorities for execution.[5]: 102 The official records of the trials are limited to formal accusations, sentences, and so forth; the documents to which historians look for context and detail are those written by the accused or their supporters.[5]: 102
Before Mary's ascent to the throne, John Foxe, one of the few clerics of his day who was against the burning of even obstinate heretics, had approached the Royal Chaplain and Protestant preacher, John Rogers to intervene on behalf of Joan Bocher, a female Anabaptist who was sentenced to death by burning in 1550.[2]: 193 Rogers refused to help, as he supported the burning of heretics. Rogers claimed that the method of execution was "sufficiently mild" for a crime as grave as heresy.[5]: 87 Later, after Mary I came to power and restored England to Catholicism, John Rogers spoke quite vehemently against the new order and was himself burnt as a heretic.[5]: 97
Throughout the course of the persecutions, Foxe lists 312 individuals who were burnt or hanged for their faith, or died or sickened in prison. Three of these people are commemorated with a gothic memorial in Oxford, England, but there are many other memorials across England.[8] They are known locally as the "Marian Martyrs".
Order of death.
Name
Residence
Description
Date of execution
Place of execution g
References
Protestants executed under Henry VIII
Martham, Norfolk
clergyman – priest
burnt 23 February 1530
Maidstone, Kent
Exeter, Devon
teacher
burnt 15 January 1531
Exeter, Devon
Taken at Norwich, Norfolk
clergyman – priest
burnt 19 August 1531
Lollards Pit, Norwich, Norfolk
Taken at Mark Lane, London
monk – Benedictine (former) and chamberlain of Bury St Edmunds Abbey
burnt 27 November 1531
St Michael-le-Querne Parish, Paternoster Row, London
leatherseller
burnt December 1531
'An old man'
burnt 1531
Davy Foster
poor artificer
burnt 1531
Middle Temple, London
lawyer
burnt 30 April 1532
John Bent
Urchfont, Wiltshire
burnt in or before April 1532
Devizes, Wiltshire
... Trapnel
burnt in or before April 1532
Bradford, Wiltshire
Chesham, Buckinghamshire
'aged father'
his brains were dashed out with a billet of wood while he was being burnt at the stake, May 1532
Chesham, Buckinghamshire
Westerham, then Sevenoaks, Kent[21] – Taken after he had been preaching at Bow Lane, London
clergyman – canon at Cardinal College, Oxford
burnt 4 July 1533
Watling Street, London (born in Faversham, Kent)
apprentice to a tailor
14.–23.
Ten Dutchmen counted for Anabaptists – Segor, Derycke, Symon, Runa, Derycke, Dominicke, Dauid, Cornelius, Elken and Milo
burnt 1535
'sundry places of the realm'
Cheapside, London
mercer
murdered 13 November 1536
Cheapside, London
William Cowbridge
Wantage, Berkshire
clergyman (purported) – 'exercised the office of a priest, in teaching and administering of the sacraments, but being no priest indeed'
burnt after – probably shortly after – 22 July 1538
Oxford, Oxfordshire
The Stocks – a market for meat and fish in the City of London
clergyman – priest, and teacher of Greek and Latin
burnt 22 November 1538
... Puttedew
burnt in or before 1538
William Leiton or Leyton
monk – Benedictine
burnt in or before 1538
Norwich, Norfolk
29. -30
Two Anabaptists, a man and a woman
Dutch
burnt 29 November 1538
Giles Germane
burnt 1539
St Giles in the Fields, outside London
Launcelot ...
servant of the king
John ...
painter
34.–36.
Three Anabaptists – ... Mandeville, ... Collins and another
burnt 29 April 1539
Newington Causeway, outside London
William Collins
lawyer and gentleman
burnt 7 July 1540
Smithfield, London or Southwark
Austin Friary, Cambridge (until 1528)
monk – Augustinian
burnt 30 July 1540
Thomas Gerrard (or Gerard, Garret or Garrard)
All Hallows Honey Lane Parish, London
clergyman – rector of All Hallows Honey Lane
Stepney, London
clergyman – vicar of St Dunstan's, Stepney
41.–42.
Valentine Freese and his wife
burnt 1540
York, Yorkshire
Richard Mekins
'a child that passed not the age of fifteen years'
burnt 30 July 1541
Richard Spenser
clergyman (former) – 'a ... Priest ... who leaving his papistry, had married a wife, and became a player in interludes'
Burnt about 1541/2
Salisbury, Wiltshire
John Ramsey
player in interludes
Thomas Bernard
burnt about 1541
James Morton
Adam Damlip (also known as George Bucker)
clergyman – former chaplain to Bishop John Fisher
hanged, drawn and quartered 22 May 1543 [40]
City of London (originally)
musician in the college at Windsor
burnt 28 July 1543
clergyman – priest of Windsor; popular preacher
churchwarden of St John the Baptist Church, Windsor
Unknown man
poor labouring man
burnt 1540[n 4]
... Dodd
Calais – a Scotsman
burnt 1541[n 5]
burnt 1545 or 1546
Colchester, Essex
servant of ... Henry
burnt 1546
Ipswich, Suffolk
Mendlesham, Suffolk
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Stallingborough, Lincolnshire[47]
wife of Master Thomas Kyme, a farmer and landowner of Friskney, Lincolnshire[47]
burnt 16 July 1546
clergyman – priest
Colchester, Essex[50]
tailor
Gateford, Nottinghamshire
courtier
... Rogers
burnt 1546
Oliver Richardine
Whitchurch parish, Shropshire
Hartford West
Radical Protestants executed under Edward VI
Joan Bocher (or Butcher, or as Joan Knell)
Kent (perhaps Romney Marsh)
2 May 1550
Dutchman
1551
Protestants executed under Mary I
clergyman – preacher, biblical translator, lecturer at St. Paul's Cathedral
burnt 4 February 1555
clergyman – preacher, Rector of All Hallows Bread Street, London
burnt 8 February 1555
Gloucester and Worcester
clergyman – Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester under Edward VI
burnt 9 February 1555
clergyman – Rector of Hadleigh, Suffolk
burnt 9 February 1555
Aldham Common, Nr Hadleigh, Suffolk
fisherman
burnt March 1555
Shoreditch, London
weaver
burnt 16 March 1555
Horndon on the Hill or Thundersby, Essex
gentleman
burnt 26 March 1555
Horndon on the Hill or Thundersby, Essex
gentleman
Coleman Street Parish, London
apprentice
burnt 27 March 1555 (or 26 according to Foxe)
barber
burnt 28 March 1555
William Pygot (or Pigot)
butcher
12. [n 6]
William Dighel
Banbury, Oxfordshire
John Lawrence (or Laurence)
clergyman – priest and former Blackfriar at Sudbury, Suffolk[50]
burnt 29 March 1555
St David's, Pembrokeshire
clergyman – Bishop of St David's under Edward VI
burnt 30 March 1555
Dean, Lancashire
clergyman – curate to Laurence Saunders and minister at Dean, Lancashire
burnt 24 April 1555
Lambeth, London
surgeon and teacher
Wells, Somerset
clergyman – prebendary of Wells Cathedral
burnt 30 May 1555
Walbrook, London
upholsterer
Thomas Hawkes (or Haukes)
gentleman
burnt 10 June 1555
Thomas Watts (or Wattes)
Billericay, Essex
linen draper
John Ardeley (or Ardite)
Wigborough, Essex
husbandman
burnt 30 May 1555 (or 'about 10 June', according to Foxe)
Nicholas Chamberlain (or Chamberlaine)
weaver
burnt 14 June 1555
William Bamford (or Butler)[n 8]
burnt 15 June 1555
Thomas Ormond (or Osmande)[n 9]
fuller
clergyman – prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral
burnt 1 July 1555
John Leaf (or Jhon Least)
Christ Church Greyfriars, London (born in Kirkby Moorside, Yorkshire)
apprentice tallow chandler
Canterbury Martyrs of July 1555
John Bland (or Blande)
Rolvenden, Kent
clergyman – vicar of Rolvenden, Kent
burnt 12 July 1555
Canterbury, Kent
Nicholas Shetterden (or Shitterdun)
Adisham, Kent
clergyman – parson of Adisham, Kent
Nicholas Hall
Dartford, Kent
bricklayer
burnt 19 July 1555
linen-weaver
burnt July 1555
Dartford, Kent
Margaret (or Margery) Polley[n 11][81]
widow
burnt 17 July 1555
Dirick Carver (also spelt Deryk; also known as Dirick Harman)
Brighthelmstone (now Brighton), Sussex
beer-brewer
burnt 22 July 1555,
husbandman
burnt 23 July 1555
Steyning, West Sussex
Thomas Euerson (or Iueson, Iverson or Iveson)
carpenter
burnt (day unknown) July 1555
Chichester, West Sussex
Richard Hook (or Hooke)[85][86]
lame man [66]
Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk
shoemaker
burnt 2 August 1555
Thetford, Norfolk (or Bury, according to Foxe)
Maidstone, Kent
gentleman
burnt 8 August 1555
Uxbridge, Middlesex
clerk at the college in Windsor, Berkshire and painter
Canterbury Martyrs of August 1555
burnt 23 August 1555
Canterbury, Kent
Elizabeth Warne (or Warren)[n 13]
Walbrook, London
widow of John Warne, upholsterer
Stratford-atte-Bow, London
Roger Hues (aliases: Curryer, Corier)
St Mary's, Taunton, Somerset
burnt 24 August 1555
Taunton, Somerset
London (born in York)
cook
burnt 26 August 1555
Patrick Pakingham (aliases: Packingham, Pachingham, Patchingham or Pattenham)
burnt 28 August 1555
Uxbridge, Middlesex
John Newman
Maidstone, Kent
pewterer
burnt 31 August 1555
Saffron Walden, Essex
Robert Samuel (or Samuell)
Barfold, Suffolk
clergyman – minister at Barfold, Suffolk
brewer
burnt 30 August 1555
Thomas Fust (or Fusse)
hosier,
August 1555
In the environs of London or Ware
Thorpe, Essex,
late August 1555
In the environs of Barnet, London
William Allen
labourer
burnt early September 1555
Walsingham, Norfolk
Roger Coe (or Coo or Cooe)
Melford, Suffolk
shearman
burnt date unknown September 1555
Yoxford, Suffolk
butcher
Canterbury Martyrs of September 1555
George Catmer (or Painter)
burnt about 6 September 1555, according to Foxe (or 12 July 1555)
Canterbury, Kent
Robert Streater (or Streter)
Calete (possibly Calais) [98]
George Brodbridge (or Bradbridge)
Bromfield, Kent
Brenchley, Kent
Mancetter, Warwickshire
gentleman
burnt 14 September 1555
Coventry, Warwickshire
Cornelius Bongey (or Bungey)
capper
burnt 20 September 1555
burnt mid-September 1555
Lichfield, Staffordshire
Holy Trinity Parish, Coventry, Warwickshire [50]
Upwell, Norfolk
constable, one of the Ely Martyrs
burnt 16 October 1555
Cathedral Green, Ely, Cambridgeshire
Wisbech, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire
painter, also an Ely Martyr
Oxford Martyrs
Hugh Latimer (or Latymer)
clergyman – chaplain to King Edward VI
burnt 16 October 1555
outside Balliol College, Oxford
clergyman – Bishop of London under Edward VI
Canterbury Martyrs of November 1555
John Webbe (or Web)
gentleman
burnt 30 November 1555
Canterbury, Kent
Gregory Parke (or Paynter)[_citation needed_]
clergyman – Archdeacon of Winchester
burnt 18 December 1555
clergyman – priest or minister
burnt 27 January 1556
Bartlett (or Bartholomew) Green
Temple, London – born in Basinghall, London
gentleman and lawyer
St Bride's parish, Fleet Street, London – born in Histon, Cambridgeshire
St Mary Botolph parish, London – born in Ipswich, Suffolk
artificer
John Went (or Winter or Hunt)
artificer
Isobella Forster (or Annis Foster)
St Bride's parish, Fleet Street, London – Born in Greystoke, Cumberland
wife of John Foster, cutler
Joan Lushford (or Jone Lashforde, or Warne)
Little Allhallows parish, Thames Street, London
maid
Canterbury Martyrs of 1556
John Lomas (or Jhon Lowmas)
Tenterden, Kent
burnt 31 January 1556
Wincheap, Canterbury
Annes Snoth (or Annis Snod)
Smarden, Kent
widow
Anne Wright (or Albright); alias Champnes
Horton, Kent
wife
'wife (as it should seem) of George Catmer', burnt in 1555
Ipswich Martyrs of 1556
Ipswich, Suffolk
wife of Robert Potten
burnt 19 February 1556
Ipswich, Cornhill
wife of Michael Trunchfield, a shoemaker
clergyman – Archbishop of Canterbury (former)
burnt 21 March 1556
outside Balliol College, Oxford
Beckhampton, Wiltshire – brought up in Rowde, Wiltshire
husbandman
burnt 24 March 1556
outside Salisbury, Wiltshire
tailor
John Spicer (or Spencer)
freemason or bricklayer
John Harpole (or Hartpoole)
St Nicholas Parish, Rochester, Kent
burnt 1 April 1556
Tunbridge Wells, Kent
widow
John Hullier (or Hulliarde)
Babraham, Cambridgeshire
clergyman – curate of Babraham, Cambridgeshire
burnt 16 April 1556
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Hockley, Essex
clergyman – curate of Hockley, Essex
burnt 24 April 1556
Thundersley, Essex
clergyman – minister or parson of Thundersley, Essex
shearman
fuller
fuller
weaver
Colchester martyrs of April 1556
Dagenham, Essex
husbandman
burnt 28 April 1556
Colchester, Essex
Colchester, Essex
apothecary
weaver
sawyer
Colchester, Essex
weaver
tanner
Hugh Laverock (or Lauarocke)
Barking, Essex
painter, (a lame man)
burnt 15 May 1556
blind man
Stratford-Atte-Bow or Stratford in Essex
blind boy
Gloucester, Gloucestershire
bricklayer
Bocking, Essex
widow
burnt 16 May 1556
Great Burstead, Essex
maid
Billericay, Essex
Thomas Spicer
labourer
burnt 21 May 1556
Beccles, Suffolk
John Deny (or Denny) (possibly a female Joan or Jone)
Beccles, Suffolk
carpenter
burnt 6 June 1556
Lewes, Sussex
John Oswald (or Oseward)
husbandman
Thomas Reed
Ardingly, Sussex
burnt about 6 June 1556
Thomas Avington (or Euington)
turner
Adam Forster (or Foster)
Mendlesham, Suffolk
husbandman
burnt 17 June 1556
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Robert Lawson
linen weaver
Thomas Wood
clergyman – pastor
burnt about 20 June 1556
Lewes, Sussex
Thomas Milles
Hellingly, Sussex
servant and husbandman
burnt 26 June 1556
Leicester, Leicestershire
Stratford Martyrs, 11 men and 2 women.
Henry Adlington (or Addlinton)
Grinstead, Sussex
sawyer
burnt 27 June 1556
Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire
smith
Stanford-le-Hope, Essex
brewer
William Holywell (or Hallywell)
Waltham Holy Cross, Essex,
smith
Great Dunmow, Essex
weaver
White Notley, Essex
tailor
labourer
Lion/Lyon Cawch
merchant/broker
Chipping Ongar, Essex,
serving-man
John Derifall (or Dorifall)
Rettendon, Essex
labourer
John Routh/Roth
wife of Thomas Pepper, weaver
West Barefold, Essex
wife of Richard George, husbandman
Framsden, Suffolk
labourer
burnt 30 June 1556
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
schoolmaster
burnt about 15 July 1556
'The Sand-pits', Nr Newbury, Berkshire
shoemaker [66]
Guernsey Martyrs – (Three women and one unborn male foetus)
Catherine Cauchés (sometimes spelt Katherine Cawches)
St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands
burnt 18 July 1556
St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands
Perotine Massey (pregnant)
wife of Norman Calvinist minister
Thomas Dungate (or Dougate)
East Grinstead, Sussex
burnt 18 July 1556
Grinstead, Sussex
John Forman (or Foreman)
Anne Tree (or Try)
West Hoathly, Sussex
All Hallows', Derby, Derbyshire
blind woman
burnt 1 August 1556
Derby, Derbyshire
Edward Sharp
glover (possibly)[66]
burnt early September 1556
Bristol, Gloucestershire/Somerset
Rose Pencell
burnt 17 October 1555
William Shapton
weaver
John Kurde
Syresham, Northamptonshire
shoemaker
burnt October 1556 or 20 September 1557
John Noyes
shoemaker
burnt 22 September 1556 or 1557
Thomas Ravensdale
burnt 24 September 1556
John Hart
Unknown man
shoemaker
Unknown man
currier
Nicholas Holden
Withyham, Sussex
weaver
Unknown man
carpenter
burnt 25 September 1556
Bristol, Gloucestershire/Somerset
John Horn
burnt late September 1556
Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire
John Phillpott
Tenterden, Kent
burnt 16 January 1557
Thomas Stephens
Biddenden, Kent
Canterbury Martyrs of January 1557
burnt 15 January 1557
Canterbury, Kent
Biddenden, Kent
Nicholas Final
Tenterden, Kent
burnt 16 January 1557
Martin Bradbridge
William Carman (or Carmen)[n 28]
burnt day and month unknown 1557
Thomas Loseby
burnt 12 April 1557
Henry Ramsey
Thomas Thyrtell (or Sturtle)
Margaret Hyde
Agnes Stanley (or Stanlye)
weaver
burnt 7 May 1557
Thomas Hale
shoemaker
Stephen Gratwick (or Steuen Grathwick)
Brighthelmstone (now Brighton), Sussex
burnt at end of May 1557
St. George's Fields, Southwark, Surrey
William Morant
Thomas King[66]
Maidstone martyrs
Joan (or Jone) Bradbridge
Staplehurst, Kent
Presumably a relative of Widow Bradbridge, burnt 19 June 1557[144]
burnt 18 June 1557
Maidstone, Kent
Walter Appleby
Maidstone, Kent
Petronil Appleby
wife of Walter Appleby
Edmund Allin (or Allen)
Maplehurst Mill, Frittenden, Kent
miller
Katherine Allin (or Allen)
Wife of Edmund Allin/Allen, miller
Joan (or Jone) Manning
Maidstone, Kent
Elizabeth (surname possibly 'Lewis')
blind maid
Canterbury martyrs of June 1557
John Fishcock/Jhon Fiscoke
burnt 19 June 1557
Canterbury, Kent
Nicholas Pardue/Perdue
Bradbridge's Widow (Bradbridge's Wife)
Probably Tenterden, Kent
Probably the widow of Martin Bradbridge, burnt 16 January 1557
Mistress Wilson (also referred to as 'Wilson's Wife')
Alice Benden, possibly also referred to as 'Benson's Wife'
Staplehurst (or possibly Cranbrook), Kent[146]
Warbleton, Sussex
iron-maker
burnt 22 June 1557
Lewes, Sussex
George Stevens (or Steuens)
Mayfield, Sussex
servant of William Mainard
maidservant of William Mainard
Margery Morris (or Morice)
Heathfield, Sussex
James Morris (or Morice) – son of Margery
Denis Burcis (or Burgis)
Buxted, Sussex
Ann Ashdon (or Ashdown; also referred to as 'Ashdon's Wife')
Rotherfield, Sussex
Mary Groves (also referred to as 'Gloue's Wife')
Lewes, Sussex
Simon Miller (or Milner)
Lynn, Norfolk
burnt 13 July 1557
Norwich, Norfolk
Elizabeth Cooper
St Andrew's Church, Norwich, Norfolk
wife of a pewterer
[7](which calls her 'a woman')[149]
George Egles/Eagles
hung, drawn & quartered, August 1557
Colchester Martyrs of August 1557
St Nicholas Parish, Colchester, Essex
glazier
burnt 2 August 1557
Colchester, Essex
William Purchase (or Purcas)
Bocking, Essex
fuller
Thomas Benhote (or Benold)
Colchester, Essex
tallow-chandler
Agnes Silverside (or Smith)
widow
wife of John Ewring, miller
'young maiden' and servant
Much Bentley, Essex
Alice Munt (or Mount)
wife of William Munt (or Mount)
Rose Allen (or Allin)
spinster, daughter of Alice Mount
Thorpe, Essex
labourer
Richard Crashfield
Wymondham, Norfolk
burnt 5 August 1557
[7] which records 'one at Norwich' in July[152]
Father Fruier
burnt August 1557
Robert Stevenson
Sister of George Eagles
Unknown Woman
Boyton, Cornwall
Spinner
burnt 15 August 1557
Southernhay, Exeter
Thomas Benion
weaver
burnt 27 August 1557
Mancetter, Warwickshire
gentlewoman
burnt September 1557
Lichfield, Staffordshire
[155][156] – may be the same as Joyce Bowes, August 1557 (the Regester)
Ralph Allerton/Rafe Glaiton
Much Bentley, Essex
burnt 17 September 1557
James Austoo (or Auscoo)
Margery Austoo (or Auscoo)
Richard Roth (or Rooth)
Agnes Bongeor (also known as Bowmer's Wife), wife of Richard Bongeor (similar name but different death date)
burnt 17 September (or unknown date July)
Colchester, Essex
[132] (or March 1558, Colchester)[7]
Margaret Thurston/Widow Thurston-similar name but different death date
St Edmund's Parish, Norwich, Norfolk
wife of Edmund Ormes, worsted-weaver
burnt 23 September 1557
Norwich, Norfolk
Thomas Spurdance
servant of the Queen
burnt November 1557
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
John Halingdale/Hallingdale/Hollingday
carpenter[66]
burnt, 18 November/or day unknown October 1557,
William Sparrow
Richard Gibson
gentleman[66]
John Rough/Jhon Roughe
London/Islington, Middlesex
clergyman – minister at London/Islington, Middlesex
burnt 22 December 1557
Margaret Maring (or Mering)
[Unknown forename ...] Lawton
burnt March 1558
245.[n 33]
London/Islington, Middlesex
clergyman – deacon of the church in London/Islington, Middlesex
died 28 March 1558
hosier[66]
wool winder[66]
William Nichol
burnt 9 April 1558
SM9515 Haverfordwest/Hwlffordd, Pembrokeshire/Sir Benfro
William Seaman (or Symon)
Mendlesham, Suffolk
husbandman
burnt 19 May 1558
Thomas Hudson
Aylsham, Norfolk
glover
[166] described as 'Glouer' in [7]
burnt 26 May 1558
Christian George (female)
burnt 26 May 1558
Colchester, Essex
her husband had previously been married to Agnes George, mentioned above[7][127]
Henry Pond (or Houde)
burnt 27 June 1558
Reinald Eastland (or Launder)
Robert Southain (or Southam)
Matthew Ricarby (or Ricarbie)
John Floyd (or Flood)
John Holiday (or Hollyday)
London (taken in or near St John's Wood)
merchant tailor
Sir Richard Yeoman (or Yeman)
clergyman – curate of Hadleigh, Suffolk
burnt 10 July 1558
Islington Martyrs (second group)[167]
burnt 14 July 1558
Brentford, Middlesex
Stephen Wight (or Wreight)
William Pikes (aliases: Pikas, Peckes)
tanner
John Cooke
sawyer
burnt about 25 July 1558
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Robert Milles (or Plummer)
shearman
Alexander Lane
wheelwright
James Ashley
bachelor
gentleman
burnt unknown day in July 1558
John (or Richard) Snell
Bedale, Yorkshire
burnt 9 September 1558
Ipswich Martyrs of 1558
Alexander Gooch (or Geche, or Gouch)
weaver of shredding-coverlets
burnt 4 November 1558
Ipswich Cornhill
276.[n 34]
Grundisburgh, Suffolk
wife of a husbandman
Philip Humphrey (or Humfrey)
burnt November 1558
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
John David/Jhon Dauy (brother of Henry David)
Henry David/H. Dauy (brother of John David)
Canterbury Martyrs of 1558
Wrotham, Kent
burnt 15 November 1558
Canterbury, Kent
Maidstone, Kent
Katherine Knight/Tynley
an aged woman
Note: Mary I died on 17 November 1558.
Radical Protestants executed under Elizabeth I
Jan Wielmacker[n 35]
Dutchman – member of a conventicle in Aldgate, London
22 July 1575
Hendrik Ter Woort[n 35]
Hethersett, Norfolk
ploughwright
20 May 1579
John Lewes[n 36]
18 September 1583
Norwich, Norfolk
Peter Cole[n 36]
Ipswich, Suffolk
tanner
1587
Wymondham, Norfolk
clergyman and physician
14 January 1589
Puritan divine: Separatist
6 April 1593
lawyer : Separatist
born Llangammarch, Powys, arrested Ratcliffe, London
writer and preacher
29 May 1593
St Thomas a Watering, Old Kent Road, London
Radical Protestants executed under James I
Hornchurch, Essex
cloth trader
18 March 1612
Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire
mercer and minister
11 April 1612
Lichfield, Staffordshire
No.
Name
Residence
Description
Date of death
Place of death
References
Henry VIII
Christopher, a Dutchman
Antwerp, Flanders
1531
died in prison at Westminster
John Porter
Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire and St Sepulchre's, London
tailor
1542
Newgate Prison, London
Thomas Sommers
merchant
About 1542
Mary I
1C.
John Alcock (or Awcock)
shearman
2 April 1555
Newgate Prison, London
clergyman – priest
2 July 1555
July 1555
... Tingle
September 1555
Newgate Prison, London
George Kyng (or King)
sickened in Lollard's Tower
John Wade
sickened in Lollard's Tower
William Androwes (or Andrew, or Andrews)
Horsley, Essex
carpenter
Newgate Prison, London
7 December 1555
William Wiseman
clothworker
13 December 1555,
Lowlar's Tower/Lollard's Tower, Lambeth Palace, London
Margaret Eliot (or Ellis)
Billericay, Essex
maid
May 1556
Newgate Prison, London
William Sleeke (or Slech)
31 May 1556
'King's Bench' Southwark, Surrey
minister
24 June 1556
wheelwright
26 June 1556
27 June 1556
29 June 1556
John Morris (or Morice)
John Careless
Coventry, Warwickshire
weaver
1 July 1556
19.–21.
William Dangerfield, his wife Joan and their infant child
sickened in prison
22.–24.
Three people
October 1556
Chichester Castle, Sussex (or Canterbury Castle, Kent, according to Knox)
John Clark
in or after November 1556
Canterbury Castle, Kent
Dunston Chittenden
William Foster
Stone, Kent
Alice Potkins
Staplehurst, Kent
John Archer
taken at Much Bentley, Essex
May 1557
Colchester Castle, Essex
about June 1557 (according to Foxe), or July 1557 (according to Farr)
Maidstone Prison, Kent
John Dale
weaver
Bury St Edmunds Prison
Matthew Withers (or Wythers)
June 1558
Newgate Prison, London