Tag: FOXE CHRISTIAN MARTYRS

  • 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…

  • Foxe’s Christian Martyrs (Part 15)

    RIDLEY AND LATIMER On September 30, 1555, Ridley and Latimer appeared together in Oxford before a panel of bishops to answer the charges of heresy that had been brought against them. Ridley was examined first. The bishop of London began by urging Ridley to recant and submit himself to the pope. “If you will renounce…

  • Foxe’s Christian Martyrs (Part 14)

    THE GLOVERS John, Robert, and William Glover were brothers living in the diocese of Lichfield and Coventry. John, the eldest, was a gentleman, the heir to his father’s estate in the town of Manchester. He had inherited a considerable amount of land and money but was made even richer in God’s graces and virtues when…

  • Foxe’s Christian Martyrs (Part 13)

    CHRISTOPHER WAID Christopher Waid was a linen weaver from Dartford, Kent, condemned by Maurice, the bishop of Rochester. On the day of his execution in July, the stake, reeds, and wood for the fire were taken out to Brimth, a gravel pit outside the village of Dartford. At ten that morning, Waid and Margery Polley,…

  • Foxe’s Christian Martyrs (Part 12)

    THOMAS WATTS Thomas Watts of Billericay, Essex, was a linen draper. Knowing he would soon be arrested, he sold all the cloth in his shop, gave almost everything he owned to his wife and children, donated the rest to the poor, and saited. On April 26, 1555, Watts was arrested and brought before Lord Rich…

  • Foxe’s Christian Martyrs (Part 11)

    GEORGE MARSH George Marsh lived quietly for many years with his wife and children on a farm in the countryside. When his wife died, he attended the University of Cambridge to become a minister, serving for a while in Lawrence Sander’s curate. Marsh preached for some time before being arrested and imprisoned for four months…

  • Foxe’s Christian Martyrs (Part 10)

    ROWLAND TAYLOR The town of Hadleigh, in Suffolk, was one of the first towns in England to hear the Word of God from Thomas Bilney. Through his work, a great number of men and women in that parish became educated in the scriptures, many of them having read the entire Bible. Some could have recited…