Not many people have heard of Walter Marsh, an Englishman who was burned to death in Rome's Campo dei Fiori after having his tongue cut out, his right hand cut off and his skin scorched with torches, so I thought I'd share what I've found out about him and how he came to this brutal end in Rome.
Notes and Sources
- 'Cecil Papers: June 1595 ,16-30', in Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House: Volume 5, 1594-1595, ed. R A Roberts (London, 1894), pp. 246-264. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-cecil-papers/vol5/pp246-264 [accessed 16 October 2018].
- ‘The memoirs of Father Robert Persons’, ed. Rev. J. H. Pollen, Miscellanea, II, Catholic Record Society, Arden Press (1906), p. 12-218, https://archive.org/details/miscellanea02cath/page/n229, the mention of Parsons is on p. 208.
- R. Sheldon, The motives of Richard Sheldon, priest, for his just, voluntary, and free renouncing of communion with the bishop of Rome (1612), Preface, https://archive.org/details/motivesrichards00shelgoog/page/n8.