Tag: A Martyrs Crown Awaits

  • Foxe’s Christian Martyrs (Part 20)

    THOMAS HUDSON Thomas Hudson was a glover by trade, living in the town of Ailesham in Norfolk. Although he had little schooling, he was a great student of the scriptures and preached on Sundays to any of his neighbors who were interested in hearing the Bible read and explained. When Queen Mary began her reign,…

  • Foxe’s Christian Martyrs (Part 19)

    JOHN HULLER John Hullier came from a respectable family and was sent to Eron and King’s College, Cambridge, where he devoted himself to the study of theology, intending to become a minister. After he graduated, he became the curate of Babram, a village about three miles from Cambridge. He hadn’t been there long before he…

  • Foxe’s Christian Martyrs (Part 18)

    GERTRUDE CROKHAY Gertrude Crokhay lived with her second husband in St. Katherine’s parish, near the Tower of London. In 1558, a child portraying St. Nicholas made his way around the parish, but Gertrude refused to let him into her house. The next day Dr. Mallet and twenty others appeared at her door to ask why…

  • Foxe’s Christian Martyrs (Part 17)

    ARCHBISHOP CRANMER (Cont’d) On February 14, 1555, Cranmer was recalled before a new commission, condemned, stripped of his church offices, and turned over to the secular authorities. By now Cranmer had been in prison for almost three years. The doctors and divines of Oxford all tried to make him recant, even allowing him to stay…