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Heads that Rolled

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Books of the Martyrs

A collection of works by and about those who suffered for their religious beliefs in the religio-political upheavals during and after the Protestant Reformation in England

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AMBROSE, Isaac (Puritan nonconformist, imprisoned in the 1640s and deprived of his position as minister in 1662))
ASHTON, John (Protestant Jacobite, hanged in 1691)
AYLWORTH, William (i.e., William Harcourt, q.v.)
BAKER, John (an Englishman allegedly put to death by the Spanish Inquisition)
BALSOM, Robert (Puritan divine, condemned to be hanged, but reprieved)
BALL, John (Persecuted for fasting on Ascension day)
BARCLAY, Robert (Quaker apologist, persecuted and imprisoned)
BASTWICK, John (Puritan controversialist, condemned along with Henry Burton and William Prynne)

BATES, Thomas (hanged for his part in the Gunpowder Plot)
BEDLOE, William (perjurer in the Popish Plot of 1678)
BURGATE, William (an Englishman allegedly put to death by the Spanish Inquisition)
BURGES, William (an Englishman allegedly put to death by the Spanish Inquisition)
BURTON, Henry (Puritan divine who had his ears chopped off)
BURTON, Nicholas (an Englishman put to death by the Spanish Inquisition)
CAPEL, Lord Arthur, Lord of Hadham (Royalist leader, beheaded in 1649)
CAREW, Nicholas (accused of treasonable correspondence with Reginald Pole; beheaded in 1539)
CARTWRIGHT, Thomas (Puritan divine, imprisoned for refusing to take the ex oficio oath)

CATESBY, Robert (Gunpowder plotter)
CLARKE, Hugh (Puritan divine, imprisoned for treason, but acquitted at trial)
CLARKE, Samuel (martyrologist)

COLEMAN, Edward (executed in 1678 as an alleged conspirator in the Popish Plot)
CORKER, James Maurice (Catholic chronicler of Catholics condemned and executed for their alleged part in the "Popish plot" of 1678;

                                                  also accused of being involved in the plot himself)
COURTENAY, Henry, Marquis of Exeter (associated with Cardinal Reginald Pole; accused of treason and executed in 1538)

DIGBY, Edward, or Everard (Implicated in the Gunpowder plot)

DINGLEY, Thomas, Knight of St. John's (associate of Reginald Pole; beheaded in 1539 for treason)
DOD, John (Puritan divine, "silenced" for his views)
DUGDALE, Stephen (perjurer in the Popish Plot of 1678)

FAWKES, Guido or Guy (Gunpowder plotter)

FENWICK, John (executed in 1679 as an alleged conspirator in the Popish Plot)
FISHER, John, Bishop of Rochester (beheaded in 1535 for refusing to accept the Act of Succession)
FISHER, John, Jesuit (discussed religion with Archbishop Laud, q.v., and imprisoned several times for his beliefs)
FITZGERALD, Thomas, Earl of Kildare (beheaded in 1537 for his part in the Lincolnshire rebellion)
FOREST, John (friar; burned in 1538 for denying the king's supremacy)
FORREST, Henry (burned in 1553 for asserting that Patrick Hamilton was a good man)
FORTESCUE, Adrian (beheaded as an accomplice of Reginald Pole in 1539)

FRITH, John (Protestant martyr; burned in 1533)
GAVAN, John (executed in 1679 as an alleged conspirator in the Popish Plot)

GARNET, Henry (Superior of the Jesuits in England, executed for his part in the Gunpowder Plot)

GERARD, or GERRARD, John (Jesuit priest implicated in the Gunpowder Plot)

GLYN, or GLYNN, Sir John (parliamentary speaker on behalf of Charles I)
GODFREY, Edmund Berry (justice of the peace; murdered in 1678, fuelling the panic engendered by the allegations of the Popish Plot)
GRAHAM, Richard, Viscount Preston (Protestant Jacobite, condemned to death, and pardoned in 1691)

GRANT or GRAUNT, John (implicated in the Gunpowder Plot)
GREEN, Robert (executed in 1679 as an alleged conspirator in the Popish Plot)

GREENWELL, or GREENWELL, Oswald (i.e., Oswald Tesmond, q.v.)
GROVE, John (executed in 1679 as an alleged conspirator in the Popish Plot)
GOWER, Stanley (his account of Richard Rothwel, q.v., appeared in the martyrology of Samuel Clarke, q.v.)
HAMILTON, Patrick (burned in Scotland for his Protestant beliefs)
HARCOURT, Thomas (executed in 1679 as an alleged conspirator in the Popish Plot)
HARCOURT, William (executed in 1679 as an alleged conspirator in the Popish Plot)
HERBERT, Lord, of Cherbury (17th century chronicler of King Henry VIII)
HERRING, Julines (Puritan divine, whom Laud [q.v.] wanted to "pickle")
HILDERSAM, Arthur (Silenced and imprisoned for Nonconformism)
HILL, Lawrence (executed in 1679 as an alleged conspirator in the Popish Plot)
HOOKER, William (an Englishman allegedly stoned to death in Spain)
HOWARD, William, Viscount Stafford (executed in 1680 as an alleged conspirator in the Popish Plot)
HOWGILL, Francis (Quaker, died in prison in 1689)
HYDE, Henry, Earl of Clarendon (implicated in the Jacobite plot of 1690-91)
IRELAND, William (executed in 1679 as an alleged conspirator in the Popish Plot)
IRONMONGER, William (i.e. William Ireland, q.v.)
JENISON, Thomas (an alleged conspirator in the Popish Plot, died in prison in 1679[?])

KEYES or KEYS, Robert (Implicated in the Gunpowder Plot)
LAMBERT, John (burned in 1538 for denying the real presence of Christ in the sacrament)
LANGHORN, Richard (executed in 1679 as an alleged conspirator in the Popish Plot)
LAUD, William, Archbishop of Canterbury (persecutor of Puritans and finally, in 1645, beheaded by them)
LEGGE, George, Baron Dartmouth (implicated in the Jacobite plot of 1690-91)
LOVE, Christopher (Presbyterian royalist, beheaded in 1651)
MORE, Sir Thomas (beheaded in 1535 for refusing to accept the Act of Succession)
NALSON, John (chronicler of King Charles I, q.v.)
NEILE, Richard, Archbishop of York (accused of Catholic sympathies by Henry Burton, q.v.)
NEVILLE, Edward (associated with Reginald Pole and beheaded in 1538)
OATES, Titus (ringleader of the gang of perjurers who testified to the Popish Plot, 1678)
PALMER, Herbert (Well-connected Puritan divine, who avoided any serious penalty for his views)
PERCY, or PIERCY, Thomas (Gunpowder plotter)
POLE, Geoffrey (Reginald Pole's brother; imprisoned in the Tower of London, but later released)
POLE, Henry, Baron Montague (Reginald Pole's brother; beheaded, 1538)
POLE, Margaret (Reginald Pole's mother; beheaded in 1541)
POLE, Cardinal Reginald (Henry VIII's "enemy overseas"; Henry took his revenge by destroying his family)
PENN, William (Quaker founder of Pennsylvania; implicated in the Jacobite plot of 1690-91)
PLUNKETT, Oliver (executed in 1681 as an alleged conspirator in the Popish Plot)
PRYNNE, William (Puritan pamphleteer, persecuted under Laud and later Laud's persecutor)
ROOKEWOOD, or ROOKWOOD, Ambrose (Implicated in the Gunpowder Plot)
ROTHWEL, Richard (Puritan divine who fended off his persecutors with a sword)
RUBEUS, Ioannes (17th century biographer of Maurus [William] Scott, q.v.)
SCOTT, Dom Maurus, or Williams (Catholic, martyred at Tyburn in 1612)
SELBY, John Wilfrid (i.e., Ioannes Rubeus)
SHARP, James, Archbishop of St. Andrews (murdered in 1679)
STUART, King Charles I (beheaded by the Puritans in 1649) Click HERE for works by, or attributed to, King Charles.
SUCK ALL CREAM (i.e., Samuel Clarke, q.v.)
TESMOND, Oswald (Jesuit priest implicated in the Gunpowder Plot)
TRESHAM, Francis (implicated in the Gunpowder Plot)
THWING, Thomas (executed in 1680 as an alleged conspirator in the Popish Plot)
TUDOR, King Henry VIII (the person who started it all!)
TURNER, Francis, Bishop of Ely (implicated in the Jacobite plot of 1690-91 and one of the "Seven Bishops" charged by James II)
TURNER, Anthony (executed in 1679 as an alleged conspirator in the Popish Plot)
WALLACE, Adam (Scottish Protestant martyr)
WISCHARD, or WISEHEART, OR WISHARD, George (burned for trying to make a match between Henry VIII's son, Edward, and Mary, Queen of Scots)
WHITEBREAD or WHITBREAD, Thomas (i.e., Thomas Harcourt, q.v.)
WHITEMAN, Edward (Puritan, burned as a heretic in 1612)
WILSON, John (17th century Catholic martyrologist)
WINTER, Robert (Gunpowder Plotter)
WINTER, Thomas (Gunpowder Plotter)
WOLSEY, Cardinal Thomas (failed to procure an annulment of Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon; died after being charged with treason in 1530)
WRIGHT, Christopher (Gunpowder plotter)
WRIGHT, John (Gunpowder plotter)
WRIGHT, Peter (Jesuit martyr)