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Dave Armstrong
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Blessed Richard Lloyd (or, Flower)
Welsh layman. Born c. 1567. Condemned for entertaining a priest named William Horner, alias Forrest. Hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn on 30 August 1588.
Blessed Richard Martin
Layman. Condemned for giving shelter to priests and hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn on 30 August 1588.
Blessed John Roche
Irish layman. Condemned for harboring priests and hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn on 30 August 1588.
Blessed Edward Shelley
Layman. Hanged at Tyburn for sheltering priests, on 30 August 1588.
St. Margaret Ward
Executed for helping a priest to escape from prison. Margaret Ward was kept in irons for eight days, was hung up by the hands, and scourged, but absolutely refused to disclose the priest's whereabouts. At her trial, she admitted to having helped Fr. William Watson to escape, and rejoiced in "having delivered an innocent lamb from the hands of those bloody wolves." She was offered a pardon if she would attend a Protestant service, but refused. She was hanged at Tyburn on 30 August 1588.
Venerable William Way (or, May)
Ordained in 1586. He was much given to abstinence and austerity. When he was not among the first of those to be tried at the Sessions in August 1588, he wept and, fearing he had offended God, went at once to confession, "but when he himself was sent for, he had so much joy that he seemed past himself". Hanged, disembowelled, and quartered at Kingston-on-Thames, 23 September, 1588.
Blessed Christopher Buxton
Born in 1562. Ordained in 1586. Being so young, it was thought that his constancy might be shaken by the sight of the barbarous butchery of his companions, and his life was offered him if he would conform to the new religion, but he courageously answered: "I would not purchase a corruptible life at such a rate, and, if I had one hundred lives, I would willingly lay them all down in defence of my faith." He was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Canterbury, 1 October, 1588.
St. Ralph Crockett
Ordained in 1585. He was put in a prison in London on 27 April 1586, where he remained for more than two years without trial. Hanged, drawn, and quartered at Chichester, Sussex, 1 October 1588. He suffered with great constancy.
Blessed Edward James
Born c. 1557. In October, 1583 James was ordained as a priest in Rome by Bishop Thomas Goldwell, the last survivor of the English bishops who had refused to accept the Protestant Reformation. He was put in a prison in London on 27 April 1586, where he remained for more than two years without trial. Executed at Chichester, Sussex, 1 October 1588. He suffered with great constancy.
Blessed John Robertson (or, Robinson)
Married layman, widower and then priest. Executed on 1 October, 1588 in Ipswich.
Blessed Robert Widmerpool
Arrested for giving aid to a Catholic priest. Hanged, drawn and quartered at Canterbury on 1 October, 1588. He kissed the ladder and the rope, and with the rope round his neck gave God hearty thanks for bringing him to so great a glory as that of dying for his faith in the same place where St Thomas of Canterbury had died for his.
Blessed Robert Wilcox
Born 1558. Ordained in 1585. Hanged, drawn and quartered at Canterbury on 1 October, 1588.
Venerable William Hartley
Born c. 1557. Ordained in 1580. Executed at Tyburn on 5 October, 1588; he suffered with great constancy.
Venerable John Harrison (or, Symons)
Layman. Executed in Halloway on 5 October, 1588.
Blessed John Hewitt (or, Weldon, or, Savell)
Ordained in 1586. In October, 1588, he was formally arraigned on a charge of obtaining ordination from the See of Rome and entering England to exercise the ministry. He was sentenced to death, and the day following was taken through the streets of London to Mile End Green, where before his execution [on 5 October 1588] he held disputes with two preachers.
Venerable Robert Sutton
Lay schoolmaster. Executed at Clerkenwell on or around 5 October, 1588.
Blessed Edward Burden
Ordained in 1584. Hanged, drawn, and quartered at York on November 29, 1588.
Venerable William Lampley
Layman. Executed at Gloucester in 1588.
Richard Bolbet
Thomas Cosen
Mrs. Cosen (presumably Thomas's wife)
Edward Ellis
Anne Lander
Laymen. Died in London prisons in 1589.
? Green
Layman. Died in prison in 1589.
John Amias
Ordained in 1581. Hanged, drawn, and quartered outside the city of York on March 16, 1589. He went to death "as joyfully as if to a feast".
Blessed Robert Dalby
Ordained in 1588. Hanged, drawn, and quartered outside the city of York on March 16, 1589. He displayed no hesitation in going to his death.
Blessed Thomas Belson
Layman. He was arrested, tortured repeatedly, and found guilty of felony for assisting the priests, and was hanged with his companions at Oxford [5 July 1589]. He suffered after the priests and, kissing the dead bodies of his pastors, begged the intercession of their happy souls that he might have the grace to imitate their courage and constancy.
Blessed George Nichols
Born 1550. Ordained 1583. In Oxford, Catholicism was increasing rapidly. Nichols during this time had converted many to the Catholic faith, notably a convicted highwayman in Oxford Castle. In May of 1589 he was arrested at the Catherine Wheel Inn, opposite of St. Mary Magdalen's Church, in Oxford, with another priest Richard Yaxley, and two laymen, Humphrey Prichard and Thomas Belson. The four men were ultimately sent to Bridewell Prison in London, where Nichols and Yaxley, were hung from their hands for up to fifteen hours to make them betray their faith, but without any success. Nichols was then separated from the rest of the three prisoners and put into a dungeon full of vermin. On June 30th all four were ordered back to Oxford for their trial. Nichols and his fellow prisoners were tried under the recent statute imposing the death sentence on any Englishman ordained abroad who entered England, and on anyone helping such a person. All were condemned, the priests for treason, the laymen for felony. On July 5, 1589, Nichols, along with Yaxley, was hanged, drawn, and quartered, while Belson and Prichard were hanged. George Nichols, having been refused permission to address the crowd, made it clear that he was being executed merely because he was a priest. After the execution his head was set up on the castle, and their quarters on the four city gates. The severity of the punishment seemed to have an effect on the people of Oxford for it would be 20 years before another Catholic recusant was executed in Oxford.
Blessed Humphrey Pritchard
Welsh layman and convert. On 5 July, 1589 he was hanged in the town ditch of Oxford, which is now Broad Street, along with a wealthy Catholic landowner and two priests. On the scaffold he said, "I call all people here present to bear witness, in this world and on the Day of Judgment, that I die because I am a Catholic, a faithful Christian of Holy Church." An onlooker called from the crowd that he was a poor wretch, because in his ignorance he did not know what Catholic meant. Blessed Humphrey answered "I may not be able to tell you in words what it means to be a Catholic, God knows my heart, and that which I am unable to explain in words I am here to explain and attest with my blood."
Blessed Richard Yaxley
Ordained in 1585. He was sent to the Bridewell prison in London, and hanged up for five hours to make him betray his host, but without avail. Yaxley was sent to the Tower as a close prisoner on 25 May, 1589, and appears to have been racked frequently. Hanged, drawn, and quartered at Oxford on 5 July 1589. His head was set up on the castle, and quarters on the four city gates.
Blessed Robert Hardesty
Layman. Executed for sheltering priests at York on 24 September 1589.
Blessed William Spenser
Ordained in 1584. Executed at York, 24 September, 1589.
Hugh Dutton
Layman. Died in a London prison between 1585-1590.
Thomas Bedal
Priest. Died in a York prison sometime between 1568-1590.
John Fitzherbert
David Gwynne
John Lander
Laymen. Died in London prisons in 1590.
Richard Bowes
Priest. Died in a York prison in 1590.
William Bredstock
Thomas Lynch
Laymen. Died in prisons in 1590.
Laurence Collier
Franciscan. Died in prison in 1590.
Ursula Foster
Layman. Died in a York prison in 1590.
William Heath
Layman. Died in prison in 1590.
Blessed Christopher Bales
Ordained in 1587. Sent to England 2 November, 1588, he was soon arrested, racked, and tortured by Topcliffe, and hung up by the hands for twenty-four hours at a time; he bore all most patiently. At length he was tried and condemned for high treason, on the charge of having been ordained beyond seas and coming to England to exercise his office. He asked Judge Anderson whether St. Augustine, Apostle of the English, was also a traitor. The judge said no, but that the act had since been made treason by law. He suffered 4 March, 1590, "about Easter", in Fleet Street opposite Fetter Lane. On the gibbet was set a placard: "For treason and favouring foreign invasion". He spoke to the people from the ladder, showing them that his only "treason" was his priesthood.
Blessed Alexander Blake
Layman. Condemned for harboring priests and executed at Gray's Inn Lane on 4 March 1590.
Blessed Nicholas Horner
He was arrested on the charge of harbouring Catholic priests. He was confined for a long time in a damp and noisome cell, where he contracted blood poisoning in one leg, which it became necessary to amputate. It is said that during this operation Horner was favoured with a vision, which acted as an anodyne to his sufferings. He was afterwards liberated, but when he was again found to be harbouring priests he was convicted of felony, and as he refused to conform to the public worship of the Church by law established, was condemned. On the eve of his execution, he had a vision of a crown of glory hanging over his head, which filled him with courage to face the ordeal of the next day. Horner was hanged, drawn and quartered [4 March 1590] because he had relieved and assisted Christopher Bales, seminary priest and martyr.
Venerable Francis Dicconson
Priest. After many tortures in the worst London prisons under the infamous Topcliffe, he was condemned as a traitor, and hanged, drawn, and quartered at Rochester on 30 April, 1590.
Venerable Miles Gerard
Born c. 1550. Ordained in 1583. After many tortures in the worst London prisons under the infamous Topcliffe, he was condemned as a traitor, and hanged, drawn, and quartered at Rochester on 30 April, 1590.
Blessed Edward Jones
Welsh. Ordained in 1588. Hunted down and captured with the aid of spies posing as Catholics, he was hanged before the very doors of the houses in Fleet Street and Clerkenwell where he was arrested, on 6 May 1590.
Blessed Anthony Middleton
Ordained in 1586. Hunted down and captured with the aid of spies posing as Catholics, he was hanged before the very doors of the houses in Fleet Street and Clerkenwell where he was arrested, on 6 May 1590.
Blessed Edmund Duke
Born 1563; ordained in 1589. He fell under suspicion in a village in County Durham and was imprisoned and given a sentence of hanging, drawing and quartering for the treasonous crime of being a priest. Executed at Dryburne on May 27, 1590.
Blessed Richard Hill
Ordained 1589. Hanged, drawn and quartered at Dryburne on May 27, 1590.
Blessed John Hogg
Ordained in 1589. Hanged, drawn, and quartered at Dryburne on May 27, 1590.
Blessed Richard Holiday
Ordained 1589. Hanged, drawn and quartered at Dryburne on May 27, 1590.
Sir Thomas Fitzherbert
? Glynne
Laymen. Died in London prisons in 1591.
Stephen Branton
Layman. Died in a York prison in 1591.
? Maycock
Layman. Died in prison in 1590.
Blessed Robert Thorpe
Ordained in 1585. Hanged, drawn, and quartered at York, 15 May, 1591. Though naturally timorous, he met his death with great fortitude.
Blessed Thomas Watkinson
Layman. Condemned for harboring priests and executed at York, 15 May, 1591.
Blessed Montford Scott
Ordained as a priest in 1577. In 1584 he was captured at York at brought to London, where he remained a prisoner for seven years. He was condemned on account of his priesthood and of his being in the country contrary to the Statute. He suffered martyrdom in Fleet Street on 1 July 1591. Topcliffe said that he had that day done the queen and the kingdom a singular piece of service in ridding the realm of such a praying and fasting papist as had not his peer in Europe.
Blessed George Beesley
A priest of singular courage, young, strong, and robust, he was captured by Topcliffe late in 1590, and was by his torture reduced to a skeleton. He endured all with invincible courage and could not be induced to betray his fellow Catholics. He was executed merely for being a priest, in Fleet Street, London on 2 July 1591.
Venerable Roger Dicconson
Priest. Executed at Winchester, 7 July, 1591.
Venerable Ralph Milner
Layman. Born early in the 16th century. Married with eight children. Convert. On the very day of his first Communion, however, he was arrested for changing his religion and committed to Winchester jail. Here his good behaviour during the years of his imprisonment won him the jailer's confidence to such a degree that he was frequently allowed out on parole, and was even trusted with the keys of the prison. This leniency enabled him to render valuable service to the other Catholic prisoners and to introduce priests to administer the sacraments. Later he assisted various priests. Finally, he was seized with Father Dicconson and placed under close confinement in Winchester jail pending the approaching sessions. Probably moved with compassion for the aged man, the judge urged Milner to attend even once the Protestant church and thus escape the gallows. The latter refused, however, "to embrace a counsel so disagreeable to the maxims of the Gospel," and began immediately to prepare for death. Every effort was made to persuade him to change his purpose and renounce the Faith. Unshaken in his resolution, Milner gave his children his last blessing, declared that "he could wish them no greater happiness than to die for the like cause," and then met his death with the utmost courage and calm [at Winchester, 7 July, 1591].
St. Edmund Gennings (or, Jennings)
Born 1567. At around sixteen years of age he converted to Catholicism. He went immediately to the English College at Rheims where he was ordained a priest in 1590, being then only twenty-three years of age. He immediately returned to the dangers of England under the assumed name of Ironmonger. His missionary career was brief. He was seized whilst in the act of saying Mass in the house of Saint Swithun Wells at Gray's Inn in London on 7 November 1591 and was hanged, drawn and quartered outside the same house on 10 December [1591]. His execution was particularly bloody, as his final speech angered Topcliffe, who ordered the rope to be cut down when he was barely stunned from the hanging. It is reported that he uttered the words, Sancte Gregori ora pro me while he was being disembowelled, and that the hangman swore, "Zounds! see, his heart is in my hand, and yet Gregory is in his mouth. O egregious Papist."
Blessed Sidney Hodgson
Layman and convert. He was condemned for harboring priests and becoming a Catholic. He was offered his life if he would give some sort of a promise of occasional conformity to the Established Church, but as he preferred to die for his religion, he was condemned and executed at Tyburn, 10 December, 1591.
Ven. Brian Lacey
Was committed to Bridewell where he was cruelly tortured by Topcliffe. He was condemned to be hanged for aiding and abetting priests and executed on 10 December 1591.
Ven. John Mason (or, Masson)
Condemned as an aider and abettor of priests and executed on 10 December 1591.
St. Polydore Plasden
Born 1563. He studied for the priesthood at Rheims and Rome and was ordained in 1586 before being sent back to England soon after. Hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn on 10 December 1591. At his execution he acknowledged Elizabeth as his lawful queen, whom he would defend to the best of his power against all her enemies, and he prayed for her and the whole realm, but said that he would rather forfeit a thousand lives than deny or fight against his religion. By the orders of Sir Walter Raleigh, he was allowed to hang till he was dead, and the sentence was carried out upon his body.
St. Swithun (or, Swithin) Wells
Born c. 1536. In 1583, was reconciled to the Catholic Church. For the crime of attending Mass, he was sentenced to die by hanging, and was executed outside his own house on 10 December 1591.
St. Eustace White
Born 1550. Priest. On 1 Sept., 1591, he was betrayed at Blandford, Dorset, by a lawyer with whom he had conversed upon religion. For two days he held public discussion with a minister, and greatly impressed the Protestants present. He was then sent to London, and lodged in Bridwell, 18 September, where for forty-six days he was kept lying on straw with his hands closely manacled. On 25 October the Privy Council gave orders for his examination under torture, and on seven occasions he was kept hanging by his manacled hands for hours together; he also suffered deprivation of food and clothing. At his execution, telling the people that his only treason was his priesthood, he thanked God for the happy crown to his labours. Being cut down alive, he rose to his feet, but was tripped up and dragged to the fire where two men stood upon his arms while the executioner butchered him [10 December 1591].
Blessed William Pike
Layman. Hanged, drawn and quartered on 22 December 1591.
Thomas Metham
Jesuit priest. Perished in prison in 1592.
Roger Martin
Priest. Executed in 1592.
Venerable Richard Williams
Welsh priest of Queen Mary's reign. Executed in 1592.
Blessed William Patenson
Ordained in 1587. According to one account, while in prison he converted and reconciled three or four thieves before their death. Another story recounts that he converted, the night before his martyrdom, six out of seven felons, who occupied the condemned cell with him. On this account he was cut down while still conscious. Hanged, drawn, and quartered on 22 January 1592 at Tyburn.
Blessed Thomas Pormort
Born c. 1559. Ordained in 1587. In August or September, 1591, he was again taken, and committed to Bridewell, whence he was removed to Topcliffe's house. He was repeatedly racked and sustained a rupture in consequence. On 8 February following he was convicted of high treason for being a seminary priest. Executed at St. Paul's Churchyard, 20 February, 1592.
Venerable Roger Ashton
He was tried and sentenced at Canterbury. He was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn, 23 June, 1592, and died "very resolute", making profession of his faith and ". . . . pitied of the people", though the infamous Topcliffe tried to stir up ill-feeling against him.
James Brushford
Priest. Died in a London prison in 1593.
Thomas Blenkinsop
Layman. Died in a York prison in 1593.
Blessed Edward Waterson
Ordained in 1592. Executed at Newcastle on 7 January 1593.
Blessed James Bird
Layman and convert. He refused to take the Oath of Supremacy and was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Winchester in his native city, on 25 March 1593.
Blessed Anthony Page
Born 1571. Ordained 1591. Hanged, disembowelled, and quartered at York, 20 or 30 April, 1593.
Blessed Joseph Lampton
Executed on 27 July 1593, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Blessed William Davies
Welsh. Ordained priest in 1585. He was arrested in 1592 and it was decided that he must die as a traitor, though he was offered his life if he would go but once to church. In spite of the then open opposition of the people, who honoured him as a saint, the cruel sentence was carried out and he was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Beaumaris on 27 July 1593. As he put the rope round his neck, the martyr said: "Thy yoke, O Lord is sweet and Thy burden is light."
William Harrison
Priest. Died in a London prison in 1594.
Blessed John Speed (or, Spence)
Layman. Executed at Durham, 4 February, 1594, for assisting the venerable martyr St. John Boste, whom he used to escort from one Catholic house to another. He died with constancy, despising the inducements offered to bring him to conformity.
Blessed William Harrington
Born 1566. Ordained in 1592. Executed on 18 February, 1594, after nine months of imprisonment and proofs of unusual constancy and noble-mindedness in prison, at the bar, and on the scaffold.
Blessed Thomas Bosgrave
Layman. Condemned for assisting a priest. Hanged, drawn, and quartered at Dorchester, 4 July, 1594. A man of some education, he delivered a stirring address on the truth of his belief prior to his execution.
Blessed John Carey
Born in Dublin. Layman. Condemned for assisting a priest. Hanged, drawn, and quartered at Dorchester, 4 July, 1594. He kissed the rope, exclaiming "O precious collar", made a solemn profession of faith and died a valiant death.
Blessed John Cornelius (or, Mohun)
Born in 1557 of Irish immigrant parents. Ordained in 1584 and became a Jesuit while in prison. He practised mortification, was devoted to meditation, and showed much zeal in the ministry. He was sent to London and brought before the Lord Treasurer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and others, who, by words and torture, tried in vain to obtain the names of such as had given him shelter or assistance. He kissed the gallows with the words of St. Andrew, "O Cross, long desired", and tried to speak to the multitude, but was prevented. He was hanged and hacked to pieces on 4 July 1594 at Dorchester, after praying for his executioners and for the welfare of the queen.
Blessed Patrick Salmon
Native of Dublin. Layman. Condemned for assisting a priest. Hanged, drawn, and quartered at Dorchester, 4 July, 1594. Before his execution Salmon, a man much admired for his virtues, exhorted the spectators to embrace the Faith, for which he and his companions were giving their lives.
St. John Boste
Born 1544. He converted to Catholicism in 1576. He left England and was ordained a priest at Reims in 1581, before returning as an active missionary priest to Northern England. He was betrayed to the authorities near Durham in 1593. Following his arrest he was taken to the Tower of London for interrogation. Returned to Durham he was condemned by the Assizes and executed at nearby Dryburn on 24 July 1594. Boste denied that he was a traitor saying "My function is to invade souls, not to meddle with temporal invasions".
Blessed John Ingram
Convert. Ordained in 1589. Captured on the Tyne, 25 November, 1593, he was imprisoned successively at Berwick, Durgam, York, and in the Tower of London, in which place he suffered the severest tortures (to induce him to name other Catholics) with great constancy, giving away nothing. Sent north again, he was imprisoned at York, Newcastle, and Durgam before being hanged, drawn, and quartered at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 25 July, 1594.
Blessed George Swallowell
Protestant minister and convert. Executed at Darlington on 26 July, 1594.
Blessed Edward Osbaldeston
with which he anticipated his death. Born c. 1560. Ordained 1585. The day following his arrest he was taken to York where he was tried at the next assizes and attained of high treason for being a priest. Bishop Challoner prints the greater part of a letter addressed by the martyr to his fellow-prisoners in York Castle, the full text of which is still extant, and which reveals the great humility and serene trust in God with which he anticipated his death. Hanged, drawn, and quartered at York, 16 November, 1594.
John Eldersha
Layman. Died in a York prison sometime between 1585-1595.
James Atkinson
Catholic confessor, tortured to death in Bridewell prison in 1595. His pathetic and romantic story tells us nothing of his early life, but he is found in the Bridewell prison, one of the worst in London, and delivered over to Topcliffe, the notorious priest-hunter, who was trying to wring evidence from him, by torture. Yielding to torment, Atkinson broke, but shortly after repented, and was lost in despair, knowing on the one hand that Topcliffe would torture him again, perhaps unto death, and on the other fearing that no priest could possibly come to confess and absolve him before his conflict. At length, fellow prisoner Fr. William Baldwin absolved him. He died shortly afterwards as a result of yet more torture.
St. Robert Southwell
Born c. 1561. Jesuit priest. In 1584 an act was passed forbidding any English-born subject of Queen Elizabeth, who had entered into priests' orders in the Roman Catholic Church since her accession, to remain in England longer than forty days on pain of death. But Southwell, at his own request, was sent to England in 1586 as a Jesuit missionary and went from one Catholic family to another, administering the rites of the Church. After six years of successful labor, Southwell was arrested and imprisoned at first in Richard Topcliffe's house, where he was repeatedly put to the torture in the vain hope of extracting evidence about other priests. His imprisonment lasted for three years, during which period he was tortured on ten occasions. On February 20, 1595, Southwell was sent to Tyburn. Many people came to witness the priest's death. He was allowed to address the people at some length, confessing that he was a Jesuit priest and praying for the salvation of the queen and his country. Some of the onlookers tugged at his legs to hasten his death, and his body was then bowelled and quartered.
Venerable Alexander Rawlins
Ordained in 1590. Hanged, drawn and quartered at York on 7 April 1595.
St. Henry Walpole
Born 1558. Jesuit. He was ordained subdeacon and deacon at Metz, and priest at Paris, 17 December 1588. In February 1591 he was sent to the Tower, where he was frequently and severely racked. He remained there until, in the spring of 1595, he was sent back to York for trial, where he was hanged, drawn and quartered on 7 April 1595.
Venerable William Freeman
Ordained in 1587. Executed at Warwick, 13 August, 1595.
St. Philip Howard
Born 1557. An English nobleman: the 20th Earl of Arundel. Howard, and much of his family, were Catholic at a time during the reign of Queen Elizabeth when it was very dangerous to be so. They also attempted to leave England without permission. While some might be able to do this quietly, Howard was second cousin of the Queen. He was committed to the Tower of London on 25 April 1585. While charges of high treason were never proved, he was to spend ten years in the Tower, until his death of dysentery [on 19 October 1595]. He had petitioned the Queen as he lay dying to allow him to see his beloved wife and his son, who had been born after his imprisonment. The Queen responded that if he would return to Protestantism his request would be granted. He refused and died alone in the Tower.
William Abbot
Hanged, drawn and quartered at York, on 29 November 1596.
Blessed George Errington
Born c. 1554. Layman. Hanged, drawn and quartered at York, on 29 November 1596.
Blessed William Gibson
Layman. Hanged, drawn and quartered at York, on 29 November 1596.
Blessed William Knight
Layman. He was sent in October, 1593, to York Castle, where William Gibson and George Errington were already confined. A certain Protestant clergyman chanced to be among their fellow prisoners. To gain his freedom he had recourse to an act of treachery: feigning a desire to become a Catholic, he won the confidence of Knight and his two companions, who explained the Faith to him. With the connivance of the authorities, he was directed to one Henry Abbot, then at liberty, who endeavoured to procure a priest to reconcile him to the Church. Thereupon Abbot was arrested and, together with Knight and his two comrades, accused of persuading the Protestant clergyman to embrace Catholicism — an act of treason under the penal laws. They were found guilty, and were hanged, drawn, and quartered at York, on 29 November 1596.
Blessed Henry Abbot
Layman. Executed at York on 4 July 1597. His acts are thus related by Challoner:
A certain Protestant minister, for some misdemeanour put into York Castle, to reinstate himself in the favour of his superiors, insinuated himself into the good opinion of the Catholic prisoners, by pretending a deep sense of repentance, and a great desire of embracing the Catholic truth . . . So they directed him, after he was enlarged, to Mr. Henry Abbot, a zealous convert who lived in Holden in the same country, to procure a priest to reconcile him . . . Mr. Abbot carried him to Carlton to the house of Esquire Stapleton, but did not succeed in finding a priest. Soon after, the traitor having got enough to put them all in danger of the law, accused them to the magistrates . . . They confessed that they had explained to him the Catholic Faith, and upon this they were all found guilty and sentenced to die.Blessed William Andleby
Ordained in 1577. Executed at York on 4 July 1597.
Blessed Edward Fulthrop
Layman. Executed at York on 4 July 1597.
Blessed Thomas Warcop
Layman. Hanged for sheltering priests at York on 4 July 1597.
Blessed John Britton
Layman. He was often separated from his wife and family, owing to constant persecution which he suffered for his faith. When advanced in years, he was maliciously and falsely accused of traitorous speeches against the queen and condemned to death. Refusing to renounce his faith he was executed at York, as in cases of high treason, 1 April, 1598.
Blessed Ralph Grimston (or, Gromston)
Layman. Condemned for assisting priests and hanged at York on June 15, 1598.
Blessed Peter Snow
Ordained in 1591. Hanged, drawn, and quartered at York on 15 June, 1598.
St. John Jones (or, John Buckley, or John Griffith)
John Jones was from a good Welsh family, who had remained faithful to the Roman Catholic Church. As a youth, he entered the Observant Franciscan convent at Greenwich; at its dissolution in 1559 he went to the Continent, and was professed (took his vows) at Pontoise, France. He begged to be allowed to go upon the English mission. His superiors considered his request aware that to journey to England was a journey which usually ended in a terrible death. In 1596 the 'priest catcher' Topcliffe was informed by a spy. Father Jones was promptly arrested and severely tortured. He was also cruelly scourged. Then the sadistic Topcliffe took him to his house and personally tortured the Father, "To him (Topcliffe) was granted the privilege, unique in the laws of England, or, perhaps, of any country, of maintaining a private rack in his own home for the more convenient examination of prisoners. He was then imprisoned for nearly two years. On 3 July 1598 Father Jones was tried on the charge of "going over the seas in the first year of Her majesty's reign (1558) and there being made a priest by the authority from Rome and then returning to England contrary to statute". He was convicted of high treason and sentenced to being hanged, drawn, and quartered [carried out on 12 July 1598]. By this time the people had grown tired of these awful butcheries, so the execution was arranged for an early hour in the morning to try to escape notice. In spite of the earliness of the hour, a large crowd had gathered. His dismembered remains were fixed on the poles on the roads to Newington and Lambeth (now represented by Tabard Street and Lambeth Road respectively); they were removed by some young Catholic gentlemen, one of whom suffered a long imprisonment for this offence.
Blessed Christopher Robinson (or, Robertson)
Ordained in 1592. Executed at Carlisle, 19 August 1598. He suffered the last penalty with such cheerful constancy that his death was the occasion of many conversions.
Venerable Richard Horner
Priest. Executed on 4 September 1598 in York.
Mathias Harrison
Layman. Died in 1599.
Venerable John Lion
Layman. Executed on 16 July 1599.
Venerable James Dowdall
Layman. Dowdall publicly avowed that he rejected the queen's supremacy, and only recognized that of the Roman pontiff and thus was committed to Exeter jail. Whilst in prison he was tortured and put to the rack, but continued unchanged in his fidelity to the ancient faith. Hanged, drawn, and quartered at Exeter on 20 September, 1599.
Eleanor Hunt
Gentlewoman. Perished in prison in 1600.
Blessed Christopher Wharton
Born before 1546. Ordained in 1584. Executed at York, 28 March, 1600. He suffered with great constancy.
St. John Rigby
Born c. 1570. Twice he was given the chance to repent [of being a Catholic]; twice he refused. He was executed by hanging at St. Thomas Waterings on June 21, 1600.
Blessed Thomas Hunt
Born 1574. Ordained in 1599. Hanged, drawn, and quartered on 11 July 1600 at Lincoln.
Blessed Thomas Sprott
Ordained in 1596. Executed at Lincoln on 11 July 1600.
Blessed Robert Nutter
Born c. 1550. Ordained as a Dominican priest in 1581. Spent some months in prison, subjected to torture and irons. Hanged at Lancaster, 26 July 1600.
Blessed Edward Thwing
Born c. 1565. Ordained in 1590. On July 26, 1600, Father Thwing was executed at Lancaster by hanging, drawing, and quartering.
Venerable John Norton
Layman. Executed on 9 August 1600 at the gallows site in Durham.
Blessed Thomas Palasor
Born c. 1570. Priest. Executed at Durham on 9 August, 1600.
Blessed John Talbot
Layman. Executed on 9 August 1600 at the gallows site in Durham, on the crest of the hill at the north side of Durham City.
Blessed John Pibush
Ordained in 1587. He was sentenced in July 1595 to suffer the penalties of high treason at St. Thomas's Waterings, and in the meantime was to be returned to the Marshalsea. However, by the end of the year he was in the Queen's Bench prison, where he remained for more than five years. Executed at St Thomas's Waterings, Camberwell, 18 February, 1601.
Blessed Mark Barkworth
Born c. 1572. Became a Catholic in 1593. Benedictine priest. After having escaped from the hands of the Huguenots of La Rochelle, he was arrested on reaching England and thrown into Newgate, where he was imprisoned for six months, and was then transferred to Bridewell. At his examinations he was reported to behave with fearlessness and frank gaiety. Having been condemned with a formal jury verdict, he was thrown into "Limbo", the horrible underground dungeon at Newgate, where he is said to have remained "very cheerful" till his death. Barkworth was executed at Tyburn on February 27, 1601. He sang, on the way to Tyburn, the Paschal Anthem: "Hæc dies quam, fecit Dominus exultemus et lætemur in ea". On his arrival he told the people: "I am come here to die, being a Catholic, a priest, and a religious man, belonging to the Order of St Benedict; it was by this same order that England was converted". It was noticed that his knees were, like St. James', hardened by constant kneeling, and an apprentice in the crowd picking up his legs, after the quartering, called out: "Which of you Gospellers can show such a knee?"
Blessed Roger Filcock
Born 1553. Priest by 1597. Executed at Tyburn on 27 February 1601.
St. Anne Line (or, Linne)
Around 1594, Fr. John Gerard opened a house of refuge for hiding priests, and put the newly-widowed Anne Line in charge of it, despite her ill health and frequent headaches. By 1597, this house had become insecure, so another was opened, and Anne Line was, again, placed in charge. On 2 February 1601, Fr. Francis Page was saying Mass in the house managed by Anne Line, when men arrived to arrest him. The priest managed to slip into a special hiding place, prepared by Anne, and afterwards to escape, but she was arrested, along with two other laypeople. Anne Line was hanged at Tyburn on 27 February 1601. At the scaffold she repeated what she had said at her trial, declaring loudly to the bystanders: "I am sentenced to die for harbouring a Catholic priest, and so far I am from repenting for having so done, that I wish, with all my soul, that where I have entertained one, I could have entertained a thousand."
Blessed Thurston Hunt
Born c. 1555. Priest. Hunt was captured and treated with great inhumanity, heavily ironed night and day until, by the order of the Privy Council, with his feet tied beneath his horse's belly, he was carried in public disgrace up to London and back again to Lancaster, where he was condemned and executed for being a priest. But the attempt to degrade him in public opinion failed. No one would let out his horse to drag him to the place of execution; he reconciled to the Church the felons condemned to die with him. Executed at Lancaster on 31 March 1601.
Venerable Thomas Hackshot
Layman. Condemned for helping the priest, Ven. Thomas Tichborne, to escape from prison. Executed at Tyburn, London, 24 August, 1601.
Venerable Nicholas Tichborne
Layman. Condemned for helping his brother, the priest Ven. Thomas Tichborne, to escape from prison. During his long imprisonment in the Gatehouse he was "afflicted with divers torments, which he endured with great courage and fortitude." Executed at Tyburn, London, 24 August, 1601.
Blessed Robert Middleton
Born c. 1570. Jesuit priest. Ordained in 1598. Hanged and beheaded in October 1601.
Mrs. Wells
Gentlewoman. Perished in prison in 1602.
Anthony Battie (or, Bates)
Layman. Hanged, drawn, and quartered at York on 22 March, 1602.
Venerable James Harrison
Ordained in 1583. Hanged, drawn, and quartered at York on 22 March, 1602.
Blessed James Duckett
Layman and convert. Out of his twelve years of married life, no less than nine were spent in prison for his new faith. In fact he was very active in propagating Catholic literature. He was finally betrayed by Peter Bullock, a bookbinder, who acted in order to obtain his own release from prison. Duckett's house was searched and Catholic books found. For this he was at once thrown into Newgate. Despite the betrayal of Duckett, Bullock was taken to his death at Tyburn in the same cart as Duckett on April 19, 1602. Duckett was handed a cup of wine, which he drank, and told his wife to drink to Peter Bullock and to forgive him. When she declined, he chided her gently until she did. On arrival at Tyburn Tree James kissed and embraced Bullock, beseeching him to die in the Catholic faith, without success.
Blessed Francis Page
Convert. Ordained in 1600 and received into the Society of Jesus while a prisoner in Newgate. Hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn on April 20, 1602.
Venerable Thomas Tichborne
Ordained in 1592. Hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn on April 20, 1602. He was in the last stages of consumption when he was martyred.
Blessed Robert Watkinson
Ordained in 1602. Hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn on April 20, 1602.
Blessed William Richardson (or, Anderson)
Ordained in 1594. He was betrayed by one of his trusted friends to the Lord Chief Justice, who expedited his trial and execution with unseemly haste, and seems to have acted more as a public prosecutor than as a judge. At his execution he showed great courage and constancy, dying most cheerfully, to the edification of all beholders. One of his last utterances was a prayer for the queen. Executed at Tyburn, 17 February, 1603.
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Something that i found interesting. When I was a kid in Canada our history talked about the Protestant martyrs under Bloody Mary and the Catholic martyrs under Henry 8th and Queen Bess and I always learned that it was kind of close as far numbers went. However when i first joined the church some of the things my kids talked about were the inquisition, and "Bloody Queen Mary"- when I told them that similar numbers of catholics had been martyred they didn't believe me. Tonight I googled Queen Mary and all that came up were facts on how murderous she was etc. A similar google on Queen Bess pulled up NOTHING on the Catholics martyred and loads on how tolerant and enlightened she was. Talk about re writing history:?
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