Robert Ferrar was a Bishop of St Davids in Wales. He was prior of Nostell Priory, embraced the English Reformation, and was made Bishop of St Davids by Edward VI. He suffered martyrdom during the Mari
Robert Farrar
Memorial plaque to Robert Ferrar on Nott Square, Carmarthen
John Roy Hooper was an English churchman, Anglican Bishop of Gloucester, later of Worcester and Gloucester, a Protestant reformer and a Protestant martyr. A proponent of the English Reformation, he wa
Robert Ferrar
…articles. Ferrar was sent to King's Bench Prison in Southwark when Queen Mary I took the throne in 1553. He was imprisoned with other bishops, including John Hooper of Gloucester and Miles Coverdale of Exeter. On 14 February 1554 Bishop Gardiner charged Ferrar with violation of chastity. "He was required to answer…
John Hooper by Henry Bryan Hall after James Warren Childe cropped
Monument to Bishop Hooper in St. Mary's Square, Gloucester
John Hooper's execution as depicted in Foxe's Book of Martyrs.