Stratford Martyrs
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The Stratford Martyrs were eleven men and two women who were burned at the stake together for their Protestant beliefs, either at Stratford-le-Bow, Middlesex or Stratford, Essex, both near London, on
Frieze on the memorial to the Stratford Martyrs
"The Thirteen Martyrs of Stratford-le-Bow" from a 19th-century engraving
The Martyrs' Memorial in Stratford (with St John the Baptist Church in the background)
Edmund Bonner
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Edmund Bonner was Bishop of London from 1539 to 1549 and again from 1553 to 1559. Initially an instrumental figure in the schism of Henry VIII from Rome, he was antagonised by the Protestant reforms i
Stratford Martyrs
…parts of Essex and Hertfordshire. Beginning on 6 June 1556, at an ecclesiastical tribunal under the direction of Thomas Darbyshire, the chancellor of Edmund Bonner the Bishop of London, they were charged with nine counts of heresy, to which they all either assented or remained silent. All of them were condemned…
Edmund Bonner in a 19th-century engraving after 16th-century portrait
Bishop Bonner punishing a heretic from Foxe's Book of Martyrs (1563)
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