This week’s Monday Martyr is Robert or Roger Ashton.
In his 18th century book, Memoirs of Missionary Priests, Bishop Richard Challoner states that Robert (also referred to as Roger) Ashton was born in Croston in Lancashire and that he was executed at Tyburn on 23rd June 1592, in the reign of Elizabeth I, for “procuring a dispensation from Rome to marry his second cousin”. However, that may not be the only reason.