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The Tudor Society

Martyrs

Total number of articles in this category: 39
Polydore Plasden (1563-1591)
Richard Leigh (1557-1588)
Margaret Ward (c.1550-1588)
Edward Barlow or Ambrose Barlow (1585-1641)
Margaret Clitherow (c.1552-1586)
A priest in the Little Ease, death from plague, and heretics meet their ends – January 25 – 31, Part 1
22 December – Two Protestants betrayed by a spy
John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester (1469-1535)
Elizabeth Barton – The Holy Maid of Kent (1506-1534)
1 March – George Wishart, a man with close friends and bitter enemies
1 December 1581 – The martyrdom of St Alexander Briant
27 March – Reading the Bible in church could get you into trouble
Cuthbert Mayne, the first seminary priest to be martyred
16 March – The martyrdom of two Catholic priests
27 February 1601 – The martyrdoms of Mark Barkworth, Roger Filcock and Anne Line
21 February – The Execution of St Robert Southwell
12 February 1584 – The execution of five Catholic priests
Blessed William Carter – Claire Chats video
Blessed Thomas Abel’s bell carving in the Beauchamp Tower
Thomas Forde, John Shert and Robert Johnson: Catholic Martyrs
William Spenser and Robert Hardesty, Catholic martyrs
Coventry Martyrs Robert Glover and Cornelius Bungey
2 August 1581 – Burning of Richard Atkins
17 July 1555 – The burnings of Margaret Polley and Christopher Wade
4 July 1597 – Executions of William Anlaby, Thomas Warcop and Edward Fulthrop
Blessed Thomas Woodhouse – the first priest to be executed in Elizabeth I’s reign
2 May 1550 – The burning of Joan Bocher, Joan of Kent
30 April 1532 – The burning of James Bainham, Protestant martyr
St Henry Walpole
30 March – The burning of Bishop Robert Ferrar and the will of Queen Mary I