Monk at London Charterhouse. Taken to Newgate Prison, chained and left to starve to death though there may have been a change of plan which meant he was fed for a while.
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Thomas Johnson
Commemorated ati
Carthusian martyrs
The verse comes from "The Apocrypha: Prayer of Azariah, Chapter 1". We don't...
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William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury
Born Reading. 1628 became Bishop of London. 1633 became Archbishop of Canterbury. Supported Charles I, opposed many of the church practices that had come in during Queen Elizabeth's reign and perse...
2 memorials
Colonel Algernon Sidney
Opponent of King Charles II. Â Born Baynard's Castle. Â Exiled in Rome. Â Returned in 1677 and was implicated in the Rye House Plot. Â Beheaded on Tower Hill.
Person, Armed Forces, Execution, Politics & Administration, Italy
1 memorial
Lord William Russell
Son of the 5th Earl Bedford. MP for Tavistock. Â Convicted of being part of the Rye House Plot to assassinate the Catholic King Charles II and beheaded, eventually, in Lincoln's Inn Fields. Â When th...
1 memorial
John Routh
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
1 memorial
Lady Jane Grey
Married to Lord Guilford Dudley. Her husband’s father persuaded the dying Edward VI to declare his two sisters Mary and Elizabeth illegitimate, which left Jane, on Edward's death, the queen. Mary...
4 memorials
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