Protestant martyr burned at Smithfield.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
John Philpot
Commemorated ati
St Bartholomew's Hospital - Marian Martyrs
Being just outside the city walls this was considered a suitable spot for exe...
Other Subjects
Corporal Samuel MacPhearson
See Farquar Shaw for the story of the Black Watch mutiny.
Anne Boleyn
Second wife of Henry VIII and so Queen of England, 1533 to 1536. Though married to Catherine of Aragon, Henry developed a passion for one of her maids of honour, Anne, and so began the whole horri...
Richard Wyche, Vicar of Deptford
Lollard heretic. Vicar of Harmondsworth Middlesex and of St Nicholas Deptford. He followed the Lollard doctrine which the authorities opposed and so he was burnt at the stake on Tower Hill for her...
Laurence Parnam
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat
Jacobite. Taken prisoner at the Battle of Culloden. Tried and was the last man to be beheaded on the Tower Hill scaffold. We're sure that made him feel a lot better about it. 2017: The Scotsman re...
Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them