thumb|Plaque in Maidstone, Kent, commemorating those burnt nearby
Protestants were executed in England under heresy laws during the reigns of Henry VIII (1509–1547) and Mary I (1553–1558), and in smaller numbers during the reigns of Edward VI (1547–1553), Elizabeth I (1558–1603), and James I (1603–1625). Most were executed in the short reign of Mary I in what is called the Marian persecutions. Protestant theologian and activist John Foxe described "the great persecutions & horrible troubles, the suffering of martyrs, and other such things" in his contemporaneously-published Book of Martyrs.
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 recognized as burned over the five years of Mary I's reign by contemporary sources.
Historical context
English Reformation
The English Reformation had put a stop to Catholic ecclesiastical governance in England, asserted royal supremacy over the English Church and dissolved some church institutions, such as monasteries and chantries.
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 cousin and chosen Protestant successor Lady Jane Grey claimed the throne but was deposed by Edward's Catholic half-sister, Mary I.
Persecution of Protestants under Mary I (1553–1558)
thumb|left|Marian martyrs memorial: [[Cotham Church, Bristol]]
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. Many people were exiled, and hundreds of dissenters were burned at the stake, earning her the nickname of "Bloody Mary". The number of people executed for their faith during the persecutions is thought to be at least 287, including 56 women. Thirty others died in prison.
Although the Marian Persecutions began with four clergymen, relics of Edwardian England's Protestantism, They are known locally as the "Marian Martyrs".
English saints and martyrs of the Reformation era are remembered in the Church of England with a Lesser Festival on 4 May.
Martyrs executed
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Order of death.
! Name
! Residence
! Description
! Date of execution
! Place of execution g
! References
|-
!colspan="7" style="background-color:#aed6f1"|Protestants executed under Henry VIII
|-
|
|Agnes Grebill
|Kent, England
|Lollard
|burnt 1511
|Kent
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 1.
| data-sort-value=Hitton|Thomas Hitton
| Martham, Norfolk
| clergyman – priest
| burnt 23 February 1530
| Maidstone, Kent
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|2.
| data-sort-value=Benet|Thomas Benet
| Exeter, Devon
| teacher
| burnt 15 January 1531
| Exeter, Devon
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|3.
| data-sort-value=Bilney|Thomas Bilney
| Taken at Norwich, Norfolk
| clergyman – priest
| burnt 19 August 1531
| Lollards Pit, Norwich, Norfolk
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|4.
| data-sort-value=Bayfield|Richard Bayfield
| Taken at Mark Lane, London
| monk – Benedictine (former) and chamberlain of Bury St Edmunds Abbey
| burnt 27 November 1531
| Smithfield, London
| style="text-align:center"|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 5.
| data-sort-value=Tewkesbury|John Tewkesbury
| St Michael-le-Querne Parish, Paternoster Row, London
| leatherseller
| burnt December 1531
| Smithfield, London
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|6.
| data-sort-value=old man|'An old man'
| Buckinghamshire
|
| burnt 1531
|
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|7.
| data-sort-value=Foster|Davy Foster
| Yorkshire
| poor artificer
| burnt 1531
|
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|8.
| data-sort-value=Bainham|James Bainham
| Middle Temple, London
| lawyer
| burnt 30 April 1532
| Smithfield, London
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 9.
| data-sort-value=Bent|John Bent
| Urchfont, Wiltshire
|
| burnt in or before April 1532
| Devizes, Wiltshire
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|10.
| data-sort-value=Trapnel|... Trapnel
|
|
| burnt in or before April 1532
| Bradford, Wiltshire
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|12.
| data-sort-value=Frith|John Frith
| Westerham, then Sevenoaks, Kent – Taken after he had been preaching at Bow Lane, London
| clergyman – canon at Cardinal College, Oxford
|rowspan=2| burnt 4 July 1533
|rowspan=2| Smithfield, London
|rowspan=2|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|13.
| data-sort-value=Hewet|Andrew Hewet
| Watling Street, London (born in Faversham, Kent)
| apprentice to a tailor
|-
| style="text-align:center"|14.–23.
| data-sort-value=Dutchmen|Ten Dutchmen counted for Anabaptists – Segor, Derycke, Symon, Runa, Derycke, Dominicke, Dauid, Cornelius, Elken and Milo
|
|
| burnt 1535
| 'sundry places of the realm'
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|24.
| data-sort-value=Pakington|Robert Pakington
| Cheapside, London
| mercer
| murdered 13 November 1536
| Cheapside, London
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 25.
| data-sort-value=Cowbridge|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
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 26.
| data-sort-value=Lambert|John Lambert
| 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
| Smithfield, London
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 27.
| data-sort-value=Puttedew|... Puttedew
| Suffolk
|
| burnt in or before 1538
| Suffolk
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|31.
| data-sort-value=Germane|Giles Germane
|
|
|rowspan=3| burnt 1539
|rowspan=3| St Giles in the Fields, outside London
|rowspan=3|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|32.
| data-sort-value=Launcelot|Launcelot ...
|
| servant of the king
|-
| style="text-align:center"|33.
| data-sort-value=John|John ...
|
| painter
|-
| style="text-align:center"|34.–36.
| data-sort-value=Anabaptists|Three Anabaptists – ... Mandeville, ... Collins and another
|
|
| burnt 29 April 1539
| Newington Causeway, outside London
| style="text-align:center"|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|37.
| data-sort-value=Collins|William Collins
| London
| lawyer and gentleman
| burnt 7 July 1540
| Smithfield, London or Southwark
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 38.
| data-sort-value=Barnes|Robert Barnes
| Austin Friary, Cambridge (until 1528)
| monk – Augustinian
|rowspan=3| burnt 30 July 1540
|rowspan=3| Smithfield, London
|rowspan=3|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|39.
| data-sort-value=Gerrard|Thomas Gerrard (or Gerard, Garret or Garrard)
| All Hallows Honey Lane Parish, London
| clergyman – rector of All Hallows Honey Lane
|-
| style="text-align:center"|40.
| data-sort-value=Jerome|William Jerome
| Stepney, London
| clergyman – vicar of St Dunstan's, Stepney
|-
| style="text-align:center"|41.–42.
| data-sort-value=Freese|Valentine Freese and his wife
|
|
| burnt 1540
| York, Yorkshire
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|43.
| data-sort-value=Mekins|Richard Mekins
|
| 'a child that passed not the age of fifteen years'
| burnt 30 July 1541
|
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|44.
| data-sort-value=Spenser|Richard Spenser
|
| clergyman (former) – 'a ... Priest ... who leaving his papistry, had married a wife, and became a player in interludes'
|rowspan=2| Burnt about 1541/2
|rowspan=2| Salisbury, Wiltshire
|rowspan=2|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|45.
| data-sort-value=Ramsey|John Ramsey
|
| player in interludes
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 46.
| data-sort-value=Bernard, Thomas|Thomas Bernard
|
|
|rowspan=2| burnt about 1541
|rowspan=2| Lincoln Diocese
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|48.
| data-sort-value=Damlip|Adam Damlip (also known as George Bucker)
| Calais
| clergyman – former chaplain to Bishop John Fisher
| hanged, drawn and quartered 22 May 1543
| Calais
|
|-
|
| Windsor Martyrs
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|49.
| data-sort-value=Testwood|Robert Testwood
| City of London (originally)
| musician in the college at Windsor
|rowspan=3| burnt 28 July 1543
|rowspan=3| Windsor, Berkshire
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|50.
| data-sort-value=Pearson|Anthony Pearson
|
| clergyman – priest of Windsor; popular preacher
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|51.
| data-sort-value=Filmer|Henry Filmer
|
| churchwarden of St John the Baptist Church, Windsor
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 52.
| data-sort-value=Unknown|Unknown man
| Calais
| poor labouring man
| burnt 1540
|rowspan=2| Calais
|rowspan=2|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 54.
| data-sort-value=Henry|[[Henry (Colchester martyr)|[Forename unknown] ... Henry]]
|
|
|rowspan=2| burnt 1545 or 1546
|rowspan=2| Colchester, Essex
|rowspan=4|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 55.
| data-sort-value=Unknown|Unknown man
|
| servant of ... Henry
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 56.
| data-sort-value=Kerby|[[Kerby (Ipswich martyr)|[Forename unknown] ... Kerby]]
|
|
|rowspan=2| burnt 1546
| Ipswich, Suffolk
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 57.
| data-sort-value=Clarke| Roger Clarke
| Mendlesham, Suffolk
|
| Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
|-
| style="text-align:center"|58.
| data-sort-value=Askew|Anne Askew
| Stallingborough, Lincolnshire
| wife of Master Thomas Kyme, a farmer and landowner of Friskney, Lincolnshire
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 59.
| data-sort-value=Belenian|Nicholas Belenian
| Shropshire
| clergyman – priest
|rowspan=3|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 60.
| data-sort-value=Adams|John Adams
| Colchester, Essex
| tailor
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 61.
| data-sort-value=Lassells|John Lassells
| Gateford, Nottinghamshire
| courtier
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 62.
| data-sort-value=Rogers|... Rogers
| Norfolk
|
|rowspan=2| burnt 1546
| Norfolk
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 63.
| data-sort-value=Richardine|Oliver Richardine
| Whitchurch parish, Shropshire
|
| Hartford West
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|2.
| data-sort-value=Parris|George van Parris
| Dutchman
|
| 1551
|
|
|-
!colspan="7" style="background-color:#aed6f1"|Protestants executed under Mary I
|-
| style="text-align:center"|1.
| data-sort-value=Rogers|John Rogers
| City of London
| clergyman – preacher, biblical translator, lecturer at St. Paul's Cathedral
|burnt 4 February 1555
| Smithfield, London
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|2.
| data-sort-value=Saunders|Lawrence Saunders
| City of London
| clergyman – preacher, Rector of All Hallows Bread Street, London
|burnt 8 February 1555
| Coventry, Warwickshire
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|3.
| data-sort-value=Hooper|John Hooper
| Gloucester and Worcester
| clergyman – Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester under Edward VI
| burnt 9 February 1555
| Gloucester, Gloucestershire
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|4.
| data-sort-value=Taylor|Rowland Taylor
| Hadleigh, Suffolk
| clergyman – Rector of Hadleigh, Suffolk
| burnt 9 February 1555
| Aldham Common, Nr Hadleigh, Suffolk
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|5.
| data-sort-value=White|Rawlins White
| Cardiff, Glamorgan
| fisherman
| burnt March 1555
| Cardiff, Glamorgan
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|6.
| data-sort-value=Tomkins|Thomas Tomkins
| Shoreditch, London
| weaver
| burnt 16 March 1555
| Smithfield, London
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|7.
| data-sort-value=Causton|Thomas Causton
| Horndon on the Hill or Thundersby, Essex
| gentleman
|rowspan=2| burnt 26 March 1555
| Rayleigh, Essex
| rowspan=2|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|8.
| data-sort-value=Higbed|Thomas Higbed
| Horndon on the Hill or Thundersby, Essex
| gentleman
| Horndon-on-the-Hill, Essex
|-
| style="text-align:center"|9.
| data-sort-value=Hunter|William Hunter
| Coleman Street Parish, London
| apprentice
| burnt 27 March 1555 (or 26 according to Foxe)
| Brentwood, Essex
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|10.
| data-sort-value=Knight|Stephen Knight
|
| barber
|rowspan=3| burnt 28 March 1555
| Maldon, Essex
|rowspan=2|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|11.
| data-sort-value=PygotWilliam|William Pygot (or Pigot)
|
| butcher
| Braintree, Essex
|-
| style="text-align:center"|12.
| data-sort-value=Dighel|William Dighel
|
|
| Banbury, Oxfordshire
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|15.
| data-sort-value=Marsh|George Marsh
| Dean, Lancashire
| clergyman – curate to Laurence Saunders and minister at Dean, Lancashire
|rowspan=2| burnt 24 April 1555
| Boughton, Cheshire
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|16.
| data-sort-value=Flower|William Flower
| Lambeth, London
| surgeon and teacher
| Westminster
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|17.
| data-sort-value=Cardmaker|John Cardmaker
| Wells, Somerset
| clergyman – prebendary of Wells Cathedral
|rowspan=2| burnt 30 May 1555
|rowspan=2| Smithfield, London
|rowspan=2|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 18.
| data-sort-value=WarneJohn|John Warne
| Walbrook, London
| upholsterer
|-
| style="text-align:center"|19.
| data-sort-value=Hawkes|Thomas Hawkes (or Haukes)
| Essex
| gentleman
|rowspan=2| burnt 10 June 1555
| Coggeshall, Essex
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|20.
| data-sort-value=Watts|Thomas Watts (or Wattes)
| Billericay, Essex
| linen draper
| Chelmsford, Essex
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|21.
| data-sort-value=Ardeley|John Ardeley (or Ardite)
|rowspan=2| Wigborough, Essex
|rowspan=2| husbandman
|rowspan=2| burnt 30 May 1555 (or 'about 10 June', according to Foxe)
| Rayleigh, Essex
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 23.
| data-sort-value=Chamberlain|Nicholas Chamberlain (or Chamberlaine)
|rowspan=3| Coggeshall, Essex
|rowspan=2| weaver
| burnt 14 June 1555
| Colchester, Essex
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|24.
| data-sort-value=Bamford|William Bamford (or Butler)
|rowspan=2| burnt 15 June 1555
| Harwich, Essex
|
| fuller
| Manningtree, Essex
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 27.
| data-sort-value=Leaf|John Leaf (or Jhon Least)
| Christ Church Greyfriars, London (born in Kirkby Moorside, Yorkshire)
| apprentice tallow chandler
|
|-
|
| Canterbury Martyrs of July 1555
|-
| style="text-align:center"|28.
| data-sort-value=Bland|John Bland (or Blande)
| Rolvenden, Kent
| clergyman – vicar of Rolvenden, Kent
|rowspan=4| burnt 12 July 1555
|rowspan=4| Canterbury, Kent
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|29.
| data-sort-value=Shetterden|Nicholas Shetterden (or Shitterdun)
|
|
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|31.
| data-sort-value=Middleton|Humphrey Middleton
| Ashford, Kent
|
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|34.
| data-sort-value=Polley|Margaret (or Margery) Polley
| Pepeling, Calais
|-
| style="text-align:center"|36.
| data-sort-value=Launder|John Launder
|rowspan=2| Godstone, Surrey
| husbandman
| burnt 23 July 1555
| Steyning, West Sussex
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|38.
| data-sort-value=Hook|Richard Hook (or Hooke)
|
| lame man
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|39.
| data-sort-value=Abbess|James Abbess
| Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk
| shoemaker
| burnt 2 August 1555
| Thetford, Norfolk (or Bury, according to Foxe)
|
|-
|
| Canterbury Martyrs of August 1555
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 42.
| data-sort-value=Coker|William Coker
|
|
|rowspan=7| burnt 23 August 1555
|rowspan=6| Canterbury, Kent
|rowspan=6|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|43.
| data-sort-value=Hopper|William Hopper
| Cranbrook, Kent
| Walbrook, London
| widow of John Warne, upholsterer
| Stratford-atte-Bow, London
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 49.
| data-sort-value=Hues|Roger Hues (aliases: Curryer, Corier)
| St Mary's, Taunton, Somerset
|
| burnt 24 August 1555
| Taunton, Somerset
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 50.
| data-sort-value=Tankerfield|George Tankerfield
| London (born in York)
| cook
| burnt 26 August 1555
| St Albans
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|51.
| data-sort-value=Pakingham|Patrick Pakingham (aliases: Packingham, Pachingham, Patchingham or Pattenham)
|
|
| burnt 28 August 1555
| Uxbridge, Middlesex
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|54.
| data-sort-value=Harwood|Stephen Harwood
| Ware, Hertfordshire
| brewer
| burnt 30 August 1555
| Stratford in Essex
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 55.
| data-sort-value=Fust|Thomas Fust (or Fusse)
|
| hosier,
| August 1555
| In the environs of London or Ware
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|59.
| data-sort-value=Cob|Thomas Cob
| Haverhill, Suffolk
| butcher
| Thetford, Norfolk
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|61.
| data-sort-value=Streater|Robert Streater (or Streter)
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 62.
| data-sort-value=Burward|Anthony Burward
| Calete (possibly Calais)
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 63.
| data-sort-value=Brodbridge|George Brodbridge (or Bradbridge)
| Bromfield, Kent
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|64.
| data-sort-value=Tutty|James Tutty (or Tuttey)
| Brenchley, Kent
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 65.
| data-sort-value=Glover|Robert Glover (or Glouer)
| Mancetter, Warwickshire
| gentleman
| burnt 14 September 1555
|rowspan=2| Coventry, Warwickshire
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 66.
| data-sort-value=Bongey|Cornelius Bongey (or Bungey)
|
| capper
| burnt 20 September 1555
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|67.
| data-sort-value=Hayward|Thomas Hayward (or Heywarde)
|
|
|rowspan=2| burnt mid-September 1555
|rowspan=2| Lichfield, Staffordshire
|rowspan=2|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 70.
| data-sort-value=PygotRobert|Robert Pygot (or Pigot)
| Wisbech, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire
| painter, also an Ely Martyr
|-
|
| Oxford Martyrs
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 71.
| data-sort-value=Latimer|Hugh Latimer (or Latymer)
| Baxterley, Warwickshire
| clergyman – chaplain to King Edward VI
|rowspan=2| burnt 16 October 1555
|rowspan=2| outside Balliol College, Oxford
|rowspan=2|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 72.
| data-sort-value=Ridley|Nicholas Ridley
| Fulham Palace
| clergyman – Bishop of London under Edward VI
|-
|
| Canterbury Martyrs of November 1555
|-
| style="text-align:center"|73.
| data-sort-value=Webbe|John Webbe (or Web)
|
| gentleman
|rowspan=3| burnt 30 November 1555
|rowspan=3| Canterbury, Kent
|rowspan=3|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|74.
| data-sort-value=Roper|George Roper
|
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|75.
| data-sort-value=Parke|Gregory Parke (or Paynter)
|
|
|-
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|76.
| data-sort-value=Philpot|John Philpot
| Winchester, Hampshire
| clergyman – Archdeacon of Winchester
| burnt 18 December 1555
|rowspan=8| Smithfield, London
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|77.
| data-sort-value=Whittle|Thomas Whittle (or Whitwell)
| Essex
| clergyman – priest or minister
|rowspan=7| burnt 27 January 1556
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|81.
| data-sort-value=Went|John Went (or Winter or Hunt)
| Langham, Essex
| artificer
|
|-
|
| Canterbury Martyrs of 1556
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 84.
| data-sort-value=Lomas|John Lomas (or Jhon Lowmas)
| Tenterden, Kent
|
|rowspan=5| burnt 31 January 1556
|rowspan=5| Wincheap, Canterbury
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 85.
| data-sort-value=SnothAnnes|Annes Snoth (or Annis Snod)
| Smarden, Kent
| widow
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|90.
| data-sort-value=Trunchfield|Joan Trunchfield
| wife of Michael Trunchfield, a shoemaker
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 92.
| data-sort-value=Maundrel|John Maundrel
| Beckhampton, Wiltshire – brought up in Rowde, Wiltshire
| husbandman
|rowspan=3| burnt 24 March 1556
|rowspan=3| outside Salisbury, Wiltshire
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|94.
| data-sort-value=Spicer|John Spicer (or Spencer)
| Winston, Suffolk
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 96.
| data-sort-value=Beach|Joan Beach
| Tunbridge Wells, Kent
| widow
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 98.
| data-sort-value=Tyms|William Tyms (or Timmes)
| Hockley, Essex
| clergyman – curate of Hockley, Essex
|rowspan=6| burnt 24 April 1556
|rowspan=6| Smithfield, London
|rowspan=6|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 99.
| data-sort-value=Drake|Robert Drake
| Thundersley, Essex
| clergyman – minister or parson of Thundersley, Essex
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 100.
| data-sort-value=Spurge|Richard Spurge
| Bocking, Essex
| shearman
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 101.
| data-sort-value=Spurge|Thomas Spurge
| Bocking, Essex
| fuller
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 102.
| data-sort-value=Ambrose|George Ambrose
| Bocking, Essex
| fuller
|-
| style="text-align:center"|103.
| data-sort-value=Cavel|John Cavel (or Cauell)
| Bocking, Essex
| weaver
|-
|
| Colchester martyrs of April 1556
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 104.
| data-sort-value=Lister|Christopher Lister
| Dagenham, Essex
| husbandman
|rowspan=6| burnt 28 April 1556
|rowspan=6| Colchester, Essex
|rowspan=3|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|105.
| data-sort-value=Mace|John Mace
|rowspan=2| Colchester, Essex
| apothecary
|-
| style="text-align:center"|106.
| data-sort-value=Spencer|John Spencer
| weaver
|-
| style="text-align:center"|107.
| data-sort-value=Joyne|Simon Joyne
|
| sawyer
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|111.
| data-sort-value=Apprice|John Apprice (or Aprice)
|
| blind man
| Stratford-Atte-Bow or Stratford in Essex
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 112.
| data-sort-value=Drowry|Thomas Drowry
|
| blind boy
|rowspan=2| Gloucester, Gloucestershire
|rowspan=2|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 113.
| data-sort-value=Croker|Thomas Croker
|
| bricklayer
|-
| style="text-align:center"|114.
| data-sort-value=Hut|Katherine Hut
| Bocking, Essex
| widow
|rowspan=3| burnt 16 May 1556
|rowspan=3| Smithfield, London
|rowspan=3|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 118.
| data-sort-value=Deny|John Deny (or Denny) (possibly a female Joan or Jone)
|rowspan=2| Beccles, Suffolk
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 119.
| data-sort-value=Poole|Edmund Poole
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 120.
| data-sort-value=Harland|Thomas Harland
|rowspan=2| Woodmancote, Sussex
| carpenter
|rowspan=2| burnt 6 June 1556
|rowspan=4| Lewes, Sussex
|rowspan=2|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 121.
| data-sort-value=Oswald|John Oswald (or Oseward)
| husbandman
|-
| style="text-align:center"|122.
| data-sort-value=Reed|Thomas Reed
|rowspan=2| Ardingly, Sussex
|
|rowspan=2| burnt about 6 June 1556
|
| data-sort-value=Avington|Thomas Avington (or Euington)
| turner
|
|-
|
| Stratford Martyrs, 11 men and 2 women.
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 129.
| data-sort-value=Adlington|Henry Adlington (or Addlinton)
| Grinstead, Sussex
| sawyer
|rowspan=13| burnt 27 June 1556
|rowspan=13| Stratford-Atte-Bow
|rowspan=11|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 144.
| data-sort-value=Guin|John Guin/Jhon Gwin
|
| shoemaker
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 147.
| data-sort-value=Massey|Perotine Massey (pregnant)
| wife of Norman Calvinist minister
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 148.
| data-sort-value=Gilbert|Guillemine Gilbert
|
|-
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 149.
| data-sort-value=Dugdale|Thomas Dungate (or Dougate)
|rowspan=2| East Grinstead, Sussex
|
|rowspan=3| burnt 18 July 1556
|rowspan=3| Grinstead, Sussex
|rowspan=3|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 150.
| data-sort-value=Forman|John Forman (or Foreman)
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 151.
| data-sort-value=Tree|Anne Tree (or Try)
| West Hoathly, Sussex
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|152.
| data-sort-value=Waste|Joan Waste
| All Hallows', Derby, Derbyshire
| blind woman
| burnt 1 August 1556
| Derby, Derbyshire
|rowspan=2|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 155.
| data-sort-value=Shapton|William Shapton
|
| weaver
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 156.
| data-sort-value=Kurde|John Kurde
| Syresham, Northamptonshire
| shoemaker
| burnt October 1556 or 20 September 1557
| Northampton, Northamptonshire
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 158.
| data-sort-value=Ravensdale|Thomas Ravensdale
|
|
|rowspan=5| burnt 24 September 1556
|rowspan=5| Mayfield, Sussex
|rowspan=2|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 165.
| data-sort-value=Phillpott|John Phillpott
| Tenterden, Kent
|
|rowspan=2| burnt 16 January 1557
|rowspan=2| Wye, Ashford, Kent
|rowspan=2|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 168.
| data-sort-value=Waterer|William Waterer
| Biddenden, Kent
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 169.
| data-sort-value=Prowting|William Prowting
| Thurnham, Kent
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 170.
| data-sort-value=Lowick|William Lowick
| Cranbrook, Kent
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|171.
| data-sort-value=Hudson|Thomas Hudson
| Selling, Kent
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 172.
| data-sort-value=Hay|William Hay
| Hythe, Kent
|
|-
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 173.
| data-sort-value=FinalNicholas|Nicholas Final
|rowspan=2| Tenterden, Kent
|
|rowspan=2| burnt 16 January 1557
|rowspan=2| Ashford, Kent
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 175.
| data-sort-value=Carman|William Carman (or Carmen)
|
|
| burnt day and month unknown 1557
|
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|176.
| data-sort-value=Loseby|Thomas Loseby
|
|
|rowspan=5| burnt 12 April 1557
|rowspan=5| Smithfield, London
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|177.
| data-sort-value=Ramsey|Henry Ramsey
|
|
|rowspan=2|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|180.
| data-sort-value=Stanley|Agnes Stanley (or Stanlye)
|
|
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 181.
| data-sort-value=Sharpe|Richard Sharpe
|
| weaver
|rowspan=2| burnt 7 May 1557
|rowspan=2| Cotham, Bristol
|rowspan=2|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 182.
| data-sort-value=Hale|Thomas Hale
|
| shoemaker
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 183.
| data-sort-value=Gratwick|Stephen Gratwick (or Steuen Grathwick)
| Brighthelmstone (now Brighton), Sussex
|
|rowspan=3| burnt at end of May 1557
|rowspan=3| St. George's Fields, Southwark, Surrey
|rowspan=2|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 184.
| data-sort-value=Morant|William Morant
|
|
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 185.
| data-sort-value=King|Thomas King
|rowspan=7| burnt 18 June 1557
|rowspan=7| Maidstone, Kent
|rowspan=7|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 187.
| data-sort-value=Appleby, Walter|Walter Appleby
|rowspan=2| Maidstone, Kent
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 188.
| data-sort-value=Appleby, Petronil|Petronil Appleby
| wife of Walter Appleby
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 189.
| data-sort-value=Allin, Edmund|Edmund Allin (or Allen)
|rowspan=2| Maplehurst Mill, Frittenden, Kent
| miller
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 190.
| data-sort-value=Allin, Katherine|Katherine Allin (or Allen)
| Wife of Edmund Allin/Allen, miller
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 191.
| data-sort-value=Manning|Joan (or Jone) Manning
| Maidstone, Kent
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 192.
| data-sort-value=Lewis|Elizabeth (surname possibly 'Lewis')
|
| blind maid
|-
|
| Canterbury martyrs of June 1557
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 193.
| data-sort-value=Fishcock|John Fishcock/Jhon Fiscoke
|
|
|rowspan=7| burnt 19 June 1557
|rowspan=7| Canterbury, Kent
|rowspan=4|
|
|-
|
| Lewes Martyrs
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 200.
| data-sort-value=Woodman|Richard Woodman
|rowspan=2| Warbleton, Sussex
| iron-maker
|rowspan=10| burnt 22 June 1557
|rowspan=10| Lewes, Sussex
|rowspan=5|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 201.
| data-sort-value=Stevens|George Stevens (or Steuens)
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|202.
| data-sort-value=Mainard|William Mainard
|rowspan=3| Mayfield, Sussex
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|203.
| data-sort-value=Hosman|Alexander Hosman
| servant of William Mainard
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 204.
| data-sort-value=Wood|Thomasina Wood
| maidservant of William Mainard
|-
| style="text-align:center"|205.
| data-sort-value=MorrisMargery|Margery Morris (or Morice)
|rowspan=2| Heathfield, Sussex
|
|
|-
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 210.
| data-sort-value=Miller|Simon Miller (or Milner)
| Lynn, Norfolk
|
|rowspan=2| burnt 13 July 1557
|rowspan=2| Norwich, Norfolk
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|211.
| data-sort-value=Cooper|Elizabeth Cooper
| St Andrew's Church, Norwich, Norfolk
| wife of a pewterer
|
|-
|
| Colchester Martyrs of August 1557
|-
| style="text-align:center"|213.
| data-sort-value=BongeorWilliam|William Bongeor
| St Nicholas Parish, Colchester, Essex
| glazier
|rowspan=10| burnt 2 August 1557
|rowspan=10| Colchester, Essex
|rowspan=10|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 214.
| data-sort-value=Purchase|William Purchase (or Purcas)
| Bocking, Essex
| fuller
|-
| style="text-align:center"|215.
| data-sort-value=Benhote|Thomas Benhote (or Benold)
|rowspan=4| Colchester, Essex
| tallow-chandler
|-
| style="text-align:center"|216.
| data-sort-value=Silverside|Agnes Silverside (or Smith)
| widow
|-
| style="text-align:center"|217.
| data-sort-value=Ewring|Helen (or Ellen) Ewring
| wife of John Ewring, miller
|-
| style="text-align:center"|218.
| data-sort-value=Folk|Elizabeth Folk
| 'young maiden' and servant
|-
| style="text-align:center"|219.
| data-sort-value=MuntWilliam|William Munt (or Mount)
|rowspan=3| Much Bentley, Essex
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|220.
| data-sort-value=MuntAlice|Alice Munt (or Mount)
| wife of William Munt (or Mount)
|-
| style="text-align:center"|221.
| data-sort-value=AllenRose|Rose Allen (or Allin)
| spinster, daughter of Alice Mount
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 222.
| data-sort-value=Johnson|John Johnson
| Thorpe, Essex
| labourer
|-
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 223.
| data-sort-value=Crashfield|Richard Crashfield
| Wymondham, Norfolk
|
| burnt 5 August 1557
| Norwich, Norfolk
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 224.
| data-sort-value=Fruier|Father Fruier
|
|
|rowspan=4| burnt August 1557
|rowspan=4| Rochester, Kent
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|226.
| data-sort-value=Eagles|Sister of George Eagles
|
|
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 229.
| data-sort-value=Benion|Thomas Benion
|
| weaver
| burnt 27 August 1557
| Bristol
| – may be the same as Joyce Bowes, August 1557 (the Regester)
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 231.
| data-sort-value=Allerton|Ralph Allerton/Rafe Glaiton
| Much Bentley, Essex
|
|rowspan=4| burnt 17 September 1557
|rowspan=4| Islington
|rowspan=4|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 232.
| data-sort-value=AustooJames|James Austoo (or Auscoo)
|
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 233.
| data-sort-value=AustooMargery|Margery Austoo (or Auscoo)
|
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 234.
| data-sort-value=Roth|Richard Roth (or Rooth)
|
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 235.
| data-sort-value=Bongeor|Agnes Bongeor (also known as Bowmer's Wife), wife of Richard Bongeor (similar name but different death date)
|
|
|rowspan=2| burnt 17 September (or unknown date July)
|rowspan=2| Colchester, Essex
|rowspan=2| (or March 1558, Colchester)
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 238.
| data-sort-value=Spurdance|Thomas Spurdance
|
| servant of the Queen
| burnt November 1557
| Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|239.
| data-sort-value=Halingdale|John Halingdale/Hallingdale/Hollingday
|
| carpenter
|-
| style="text-align:center"|240.
| data-sort-value=Sparrow|William Sparrow
|
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|241.
| data-sort-value=Gibson|Richard Gibson
|
| gentleman
|-
| style="text-align:center"|243.
| data-sort-value=Maring|Margaret Maring (or Mering)
|
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|244.
| data-sort-value=Lawton|[Unknown forename ...] Lawton
|
|
| burnt March 1558
| Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire
|
| data-sort-value=Symson|Cuthbert Symson/Symion
| London/Islington, Middlesex
| clergyman – deacon of the church in London/Islington, Middlesex
|rowspan=3| died 28 March 1558
|rowspan=3| Smithfield, London
|rowspan=3|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|246.
| data-sort-value=Foxe|Hugh Foxe
|
| hosier
|-
| style="text-align:center"|249.
| data-sort-value=SeamanWilliam|William Seaman (or Symon)
| Mendlesham, Suffolk
| husbandman
|rowspan=3| burnt 19 May 1558
|rowspan=3| Norwich, Norfolk
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 250.
| data-sort-value=HudsonThomas|Thomas Hudson
| Aylsham, Norfolk
| glover
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 253.
| data-sort-value=Day|Richard Day
|
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|254.
| data-sort-value=GeorgeChristian|Christian George (female)
|
|
| burnt 26 May 1558
| Colchester, Essex
| her husband had previously been married to Agnes George, mentioned above
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 255.
| data-sort-value=Pond|Henry Pond (or Houde)
|
|
|rowspan=7| burnt 27 June 1558
|rowspan=7| Smithfield, London
|rowspan=7|
|-
|
| Islington Martyrs (second group)
|-
| style="text-align:center"|270.
| data-sort-value=Milles|Robert Milles (or Plummer)
|
| shearman
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 271.
| data-sort-value=Lane|Alexander Lane
|
| wheelwright
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 272.
| data-sort-value=Ashley|James Ashley
|
| bachelor
|-
| style="text-align:center"|273.
| data-sort-value=Benbrike|Thomas Benbrike/Benbridge
|
| gentleman
| burnt unknown day in July 1558
| Winchester, Hampshire
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 274.
| data-sort-value=Snell|John (or Richard) Snell
| Bedale, Yorkshire
|
| burnt 9 September 1558
| Richmond, Yorkshire
|
|-
|
|Ipswich Martyrs of 1558
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|275.
| data-sort-value=Gooch|Alexander Gooch (or Geche, or Gouch)
| Woodbridge or Melton, Suffolk
| weaver of shredding-coverlets
|rowspan=2| burnt 4 November 1558
|rowspan=2| Ipswich Cornhill
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|276.
| data-sort-value=Driver|Alice Driver
| Grundisburgh, Suffolk
| wife of a husbandman
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|278.
| data-sort-value=DavidJohn|John David/Jhon Dauy (brother of Henry David)
|
|
|-
|style="text-align:center"| 279.
| data-sort-value=DavidHenry|Henry David/H. Dauy (brother of John David)
|
|
|-
|
| Canterbury Martyrs of 1558
|-
| style="text-align:center"|280.
| data-sort-value=Corneford|John Corneford
| Wrotham, Kent
|
|rowspan=5| burnt 15 November 1558
|rowspan=5| Canterbury, Kent
|rowspan=5|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|281.
| data-sort-value=BrownChristopher|Christopher Brown
| Maidstone, Kent
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|282.
| data-sort-value=Herst|John Herst
| Ashford, Kent
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|283.
| data-sort-value=SnothAlice|Alice Snoth
|
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|284.
| data-sort-value=Knight|Katherine Knight/Tynley
|
| an aged woman
|-
|
|Note: Mary I died on 17 November 1558.
|-
!colspan="7" style="background-color:#aed6f1"|Radical Protestants executed under Elizabeth I
|-
| style="text-align:center"|1.
| data-sort-value=Wielmacker|Jan Wielmacker
|rowspan=2| Dutchman – member of a conventicle in Aldgate, London
|
|rowspan=2| 22 July 1575
|rowspan=2| Smithfield, London
|rowspan=2|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|2.
| data-sort-value=Ter Woort|Hendrik Ter Woort
| Hethersett, Norfolk
| ploughwright
| 20 May 1579
| Norwich Castle
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|4.
| data-sort-value=Lewes|John Lewes-
|-
| style="text-align:center"|7.
| data-sort-value=Greenwood|John Greenwood
| London
| Puritan divine: Separatist
|rowspan=2| 6 April 1593
|rowspan=2| London
|rowspan=2| -
|-
| style="text-align:center"|8.
| data-sort-value=Barrowe|Henry Barrowe (or Barrow)
| London
| lawyer : Separatist
|-
| style="text-align:center"|9.
| data-sort-value=Penry|John Penry
| born Llangammarch, Powys, arrested Ratcliffe, London
| writer and preacher
| 29 May 1593
| St Thomas a Watering, Old Kent Road, London
|
|-
!colspan="7" style="background-color:#aed6f1"|Radical Protestants executed under James I
|-
| style="text-align:center"|1.
| data-sort-value=Legate|Bartholomew Legate
| Hornchurch, Essex
| cloth trader
| 18 March 1612
| Smithfield, London
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|2.
| data-sort-value=Wightman|Edward Wightman
|}
Also mentioned by Foxe
- John Fortune (or Cutler) (of Hintlesham, Suffolk, blacksmith, either burnt or died in prison)
- John Warner of Bourne
- John Ashedon of Catsfield
Posthumous proceedings
- William Tracy of Toddington, Gloucestershire, 'worshipful esquire', exhumed and burnt, 1532
- John Tooley, poulterer, exhumed and burnt, 4 June 1555
- James Trevisam, died 3 July 1555 and summoned posthumously to appear before the bishop
- Catherine, wife of Peter Martyr Vermigli, exhumed 1556, Cambridge
- Martin Bucer, Professor of Divinity, exhumed and burnt 6 February 1557, Cambridge
- Paul Fagius, Lecturer in Hebrew, exhumed and burnt 6 February 1557, Cambridge
|-
| 2.
| William Minge
|
| clergyman – priest
| 2 July 1555
| Maidstone Prison, Kent
|
|-
| 5.
| George Kyng (or King)
|
|
| sickened in Lollard's Tower
|
|-
| 16.
| Martyne Hunte
|
|
|rowspan=2| 29 June 1556
|-
| 17.
| John Morris (or Morice)
|
|
|-
| 18.
| John Careless
| Coventry, Warwickshire
| weaver
| 1 July 1556
|
|-
| 19.–21.
| William Dangerfield, his wife Joan and their infant child
|
|
|
| sickened in prison
|
|-
| 32.
| John Dale
| Hadleigh, Suffolk
| weaver
|
| Bury St Edmunds Prison
|
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References
External links
- List of martyrs according to Foxe
- List of martyrs according to Summers