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Robert Smith

Categories: Execution, Religion

Robert Smith

Protestant martyr. Before his execution,he wrote to his wife Anne: “Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ be with you dear wife, now and for ever, amen, and prevent your ways through his Holy Spirit, that ye may in all your words and works please God"

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Robert Smith

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Lynch Green Martyrs

This stone was erected in 1955 in memory of Robert Smith, John Denley & P...

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