1537

John Davy

Categories: Execution, Religion

Monk at London Charterhouse. Taken to Newgate Prison, chained and left to starve to death.

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John Davy

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Carthusian martyrs

The verse comes from "The Apocrypha: Prayer of Azariah, Chapter 1". We don't...

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Corporal Malcolm MacPhearson

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Person, Armed Forces, Execution, Scotland

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18 Carthusians were executed for refusing to accept Henry VIII as the head of the church of England. 16 were from London Charterhouse, including the prior John Houghton, and 2 from other English Ch...

Group, Execution, Religion

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Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat

Jacobite. Taken prisoner at the Battle of Culloden. Tried and was the last man to be beheaded on the Tower Hill scaffold. We're sure that made him feel a lot better about it. 2017: The Scotsman re...

Person, Armed Forces, Execution, Scotland

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Robert Salte

Lay brother at London Charterhouse. Taken Taken to Newgate Prison, chained and left to starve to death.

Person, Execution, Religion

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Sebastian Newdigate

Monk at London Charterhouse. Newdigate was a personal friend of Henry VIII. The king visited him twice in prison but Newdigate refused to change his views. Executed at Tyburn.

Person, Execution, Religion

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