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William Greenwood

Categories: Execution, Religion

Lay brother at London Charterhouse. Taken to Newgate Prison, chained and left to starve to death.

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William Greenwood

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Carthusian martyrs

The verse comes from "The Apocrypha: Prayer of Azariah, Chapter 1". We don't...

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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...

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Elizabeth Warne

Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for her Protestant beliefs. Gentlewoman. Widow of John Warne, mother of Joan and a son. Taken at a prayer meeting.

Person, Execution, Religion

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Person, Execution, Politics & Administration, Tragedy, Germany, Poland, Russia

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Robert Salte

Lay brother at London Charterhouse. Taken Taken to Newgate Prison, chained and left to starve to death.

Person, Execution, Religion

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Simon of Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury

Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor of England. In the latter role he was associated with the taxes against which the Peasants Revolted and so, along with Robert Hales, he was dragged fro...

Person, Execution, Politics & Administration, Religion

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