Lay brother at London Charterhouse. Taken Taken to Newgate Prison, chained and left to starve to death.
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Walter Peerson
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Carthusian martyrs
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Sir Thomas More
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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...
George Searles
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
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Rowland Plumbe
Architect. Also known as Roland Plumbe. Designed many residential schemes across London.
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