The Tudor Society
  • Monday Martyrs – Five Canterbury Martyrs

    he burning of George Catmer, Robert Streater, Anthony Burward and George Broadbridge at Canterbury

    This week’s #MondayMartyrs are Protestants George Catmer and Robert Streater of Hythe, in Kent; Anthony Burward of “Calete” (Calais?); George Brodbridge (Broadbridge, Bradbridge) of Bromfield, in Kent, and James Tutty of Brenchley, in Kent.

    All five men were burnt at the stake as heretics in Canterbury in September 1555, in the reign of Queen Mary I.

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