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Dave Armstrong
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Blessed John Eynon (or, Onion)
Benedictine monk. Priest at Saint Giles, Reading, England. Refused to surrender his parish to non-Catholic authorities, was arrested, and taken to Reading abbey where he was hanged on 15 November 1539.
Blessed Hugh Cook Faringdon
He was appointed Abbot of Reading Abbey in 1520. At first his relationship with King Henry VIII seems to have been supportive. He sat in Parliament from 1523 to 1539 and, in 1530, he signed, with other members of the House of Lords, a letter to the Pope pointing out the evils likely to result from delaying the divorce desired by the King; and, again in 1536, he signed the Articles of Faith which virtually acknowledged the supremacy of the crown over the church. In 1539, Faringdon was indicted of high treason accused of having assisted the Northern rebels with money. He was tracked down at Bere Court, his manor at Pangbourne, and taken back to Reading where he was executed outside the Abbey Gateway on 15th November 1539.
Blessed John Rugg
Benedictine priest. He is believed to have hidden the hand of Saint Anastasius, a relic housed in the cathedral, when the king's men seized the relics in the Reading abbey. For this, and for denying the king's as head of the Church, he was dragged through the streets and hanged, drawn, and quartered on 15 November 1539 at the main abbey gateway in Reading, England; left to rot in his chains as a warning for others.
Blessed John Beche
Benedictine Abbot. Originally took Henry VIII's Oath of Supremacy, on 7 July, 1534. In November, 1538, he exasperated Henry and his ministers by denying the legal right of a royal commission to confiscate his abbey. Within a year of this he was committed to the Tower on a charge of treason, was discharged from custody, and rearrested some time before the 1st of November, 1539. Witnesses were found to testify how the abbot had said that the reason for the king's revolt from Catholic unity was the king's desire to marry Anne Boleyn. In his own examination the abbot yielded to human weakness and tried to explain away his former assertions of Catholic truth. In spite of these lapses he eventually received the crown of martyrdom. Tried at Colchester, by a special commission, in November, 1539, he no longer pleaded against the charge of contumacy to the newly established order of things. He was convicted and executed at Colchester on 1 December, 1539.
Blessed Roger James
Sub-treasurer of, and the youngest monk in Glastonbury abbey. Arrested for refusing to acknowledge King Henry VIII as head of the Church. Dragged through the streets by horses then hanged, drawn, and quartered on 1 December 1539 at Tor Hill, Glastonbury, England.
Blessed John Thorne
Benedictine monk at Glastonbury. Abbey treasurer at the time the house was dissolved by decree of King Henry VIII. When the king's men arrived to disperse the monks, and impound the treasure, John hid it. For keeping Church property from the king, he was charged with sacrilege and treason, and was dragged through the streets by horses then hanged, drawn, and quartered on 1 December 1539 at Tor Hill, Glastonbury, England.
Glastonbury Abbey (all we need now is the severed head of a "treasonous" holy Catholic abbot hanging somewhere, to make it complete)
Blessed Richard Whiting
Born 1460. Ordained in 1501. Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey after 1525. By January, 1539, Glastonbury was the only monastery left in Somerset, and on 19 September in that year the royal commissioners, Layton, Pollard and Moyle, arrived there without warning on the orders of Thomas Cromwell. Whiting was sent up to the Tower of London that Cromwell might examine him for himself, but the precise charge on which he was arrested, and subsequently executed, remains uncertain though his case is usually referred to as one of treason. As a member of the House of Lords, Whiting should have been attainted by an Act of Parliament passed for the purpose, but his execution was an accomplished fact, before Parliament even met. On 1 December 1539, he was taken to Glastonbury, fastened upon hurdles and dragged by horses to the top of Glastonbury Tor which overlooks the town. Here he was hanged, drawn, and quartered, his head fastened over the gate of the now deserted abbey and his limbs exposed at Wells, Bath, Ilchester and Bridgewater.
St. John Stone
Augustinian friar. He publicly denounced the behaviour of King Henry VIII from the pulpit and publicly stated his approval of the status of monarch's first marriage - clearly opposing the monarch's wish to gain a divorce. He refused to surrender church property to the civil state. "Behold I close my apostolate in my blood, In my death I shall find life, for I die for a holy cause, the defense of the Church of God, infallible and immaculate" he said as the executioners prepared to do their work. Stone was hanged, drawn and quartered, probably in December 1539. His head and body were placed on display to dishonour his corpse since he was considered a traitor for defying the king.
William Peterson
William Richardson
Priests. Executed in 1540.
Blessed Thomas Abel
Born c. 1497. Priest. Served Queen Catherine as her chaplain some time before 1528 and appears to have taught the queen modern languages and music. He remained to the last a staunch supporter of the unfortunate queen in the case of the validity of her marriage with Henry VIII. In 1532, he published his Invicta Veritas, an answer to the determination of the most famous Universities, that by no manner of law it may be lawful for King Henry to be divorced from the Queen's grace, his lawful and very wife. For this he was imprisoned, in December, 1533, kept in close confinement until his execution at Smithfield on 30 July 1540 (hanged, drawn, and quartered), two days after the execution of Thomas Cromwell.
Blessed Richard Fetherston
Priest. He was chaplain to Catharine of Aragon and schoolmaster to her daughter, Princess Mary, afterwards queen. He was one of the theologians appointed to defend Queen Catharine's cause in the divorce proceedings before the legates Wolsey and Campeggio. In 1534 he was called upon to take the Oath of Supremacy and, on refusing to do so, was committed to the Tower, 13 December, 1534. He seems to have remained in prison till 30 July, 1540, when he was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Smithfield. Like his fellow martyrs Thomas Abel and Edward Powell, his head was placed on a pole on London Bridge, and his limbs fixed over gates of the city.
Blessed Edward Powell
Welshman. Born c. 1478. A court preacher in high favour with Henry VIII. Powell was one of the four theologians selected to defend the legality of the marriage of Catherine of Aragon. In March, 1533, Powell was selected to answer Latimer at Bristol, and was alleged to have disparaged his moral character. Latimer complained to Cromwell, and Powell fell into further disfavour by denouncing Henry's marriage with Anne Boleyn. In November 1534 he was attainted for high treason in refusing to take the oath of succession, deprived of his benefices, and imprisoned in the Tower of London. Hanged, drawn, and quartered at Smithfield on 30 July 1540.
Venerable Edmund Brindholm
Priest, accused of being concerned in a plot to betray Calais to the French. There seems, however, no evidence that he was really concerned in any plot. Hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn, 4 August, 1540.
Blessed William Horne
Carthusian laybrother from the London Charterhouse. Refused to take the Oath of Supremacy to the Butcher-Tyrant Henry VIII. He was originally among the nine martyred Carthusians (above) who were starved to death, but was kept alive for some reason and was hanged, disembowelled, and quartered at Tyburn on August 4, 1540.
Additional Martyrs of 4 August 1540
All hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn.
Priest Robert Bird.
William Bird, secular priest, Rector of Fittleton and Vicar of Bradford, Wiltshire.
Layman Gervaise Carrow.
Lawrence Cook, Carmelite Prior of Doncaster.
Thomas Epson (or, Empson), Benedictine.
Layman Giles Heron.
Layman Darbie Kenham.
Layman Venerable Clement Philpot.
Blessed Margaret Pole
Born 14 August 1473. Countess of Salisbury, was the daughter of George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence and Isabella Neville. Her father was a brother of both Kings Edward IV and Richard III of England. She was the last member of the Plantagenet dynasty. Around 1491, Henry VII had given Margaret in marriage to Sir Richard Pole, whose mother was the half-sister of the king's mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort. At her husband's death in 1505, Margaret was left with five children, of whom the fourth, Reginald Pole, was to become Cardinal and Archbishop of Canterbury. When the matter of the king's divorce from Catherine of Aragon began to be talked of, Reginald Pole boldly spoke out his mind in the affair and shortly afterwards withdrew from England. The Princess was still in the Countess's charge when Henry married Anne Boleyn.
In January 1539, Margaret herself, despite her age, was arrested and examined and subjected to all manner of indignity. In May Cromwell introduced against her a Bill of Attainder, the readings of which were hurriedly got over, and at the third reading Cromwell produced a white silk tunic found in one of her coffers, which was embroidered on the back with the Five Wounds, and for this, which was held to connect her with the Northern Uprising, she was "attainted to die by Act of Parliament" and also lost her titles.
The other charges against her, to which she was never permitted to reply, had to do with the escape from England of her chaplain and the conveying of messages abroad. After the passage of the Act, she was removed to the Tower and there, for nearly two years, she was "tormented by the severity of the weather and insufficient clothing". In April, 1541, there was another insurrection in Yorkshire, and it was then determined to enforce without any further procedure the Act of Attainder passed in 1539.
On the morning of May 27, 1541 Margaret was told she was to die within the hour. She answered that no crime had been imputed to her; nevertheless she was taken from her cell to the place within the precincts of the Tower of London, where a low wooden block had been prepared. As Margaret was of noble birth, she was not executed before the populace, though there were about 150 witnesses.
According to some accounts, the countess, who was 67 years old, frail and ill, was dragged to the block, but refused to lay her head on it, having to be forced down. As she struggled, the inexperienced executioner's first blow made a gash in her shoulder rather than her neck. Several additional blows were required to complete the execution. A less reputable account states that Margaret leapt from the block after the first clumsy blow and ran, pursued by the executioner, being struck eleven times before she died.
Blessed David Gonson (or, Gunston, or Gunson)
Sir David Gunston was a member of an English naval family who was received into the Order at the English Auberge in Malta on 20 October 1533. He served on the ships of the Order in the Mediterranean until 1540 when he returned to England. Henry VIII had suppressed the Order in his kingdom by an Act of Parliament of 10 May 1540. David Gunston was imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1540 and was condemned to death by an Act of Parliament in 1541 for denying the authority of the King in spiritual matters. He was hanged, drawn and quartered at St. Thomas' Waterings, Southwark on 12 July 1541.
Martin de Courdres
Paul of St. William
Priests. Executed in 1544.
Darby Genning
Layman. Executed in 1544.
Blessed German Gardiner
Layman. Executed on March 7, 1544 at Tyburn. Gardiner's indictment states plainly that he was executed for endeavouring "to deprive the King of his dignity, title, and name of Supreme Head of the English and Irish Church".
Blessed John Ireland
Priest. Executed on March 7, 1544 at Tyburn.
Blessed John Larke
Priest. He was a personal friend of St. Thomas More. He was indicted 15 February, 1544 and executed on March 7, 1544 at Tyburn.
Robert Singleton
Priest. Executed on March 7, 1544 at Tyburn.
Venerable Thomas Ashby
Executed at Tyburn, 29 March, 1544.
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