Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Henry Wye
Commemorated ati
Stratford Martyrs
The event on 27 June 1556 was a big draw: "These 11 men and 2 women were brou...
Other Subjects
Private Farquar Shaw
The Highland regiment, the Black Watch, had been marched down from Scotland to Finchley where, hearing rumours that they were to be sent to fight in America, about 100 soldiers went absent without ...
Thomas Cromwell
Born Putney. Executed on Tower Hill by order of Henry VIII, while Henry married Katherine Howard, wife number 5. Oliver Cromwell is descended from one of Thomas's sisters, whose husband changed hi...
John Rochester
Monk at London Charterhouse. Exiled to the Charterhouse in Hull and then executed in York.
William Greenwood
Lay brother at London Charterhouse. Taken to Newgate Prison, chained and left to starve to death.
Richard Wyche, Vicar of Deptford
Lollard heretic. Vicar of Harmondsworth Middlesex and of St Nicholas Deptford. He followed the Lollard doctrine which the authorities opposed and so he was burnt at the stake on Tower Hill for her...