John Fisher
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John Fisher was an English Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Rochester from 1504 to 1535 and as chancellor of the University of Cambridge. He is honoured as a martyr and saint by the Catholic C
Depicted by a follower of Hans Holbein the Younger
Portret van John Fisher, RP P 1908 4493
John Fisher as a young man by Pietro Torrigiano.
John Fisher by Gerard Valck, after Adriaen van der Werff, 1697.
Richard Roose
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Richard Roose was accused in early 1531 of poisoning members of the household of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, for which he was boiled to death. Nothing is known of Roose or his life outside the c
John Fisher
…served to the household and two died: however Fisher was fasting that day. Henry VIII had parliament enact a retroactive bill that allowed the cook, Richard Roose, without a public trial, to be executed by the state by being boiled alive for the crime of poisoning. On another occasion in 1530, a cannonball fired…
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Contemporary bust of John Fisher, c. 1510, now held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art