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Heads that Rolled
or
Books
of the Martyrs
A collection of works by and about those who suffered for their religious beliefs in the religio-political upheavals during and after the Protestant Reformation in England
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DETAILED INDEX OF CONTENTS: PART ONE (A-M) PART TWO (N-Z) (click here)
AMBROSE, Isaac (Puritan nonconformist, imprisoned
in the 1640s and deprived of his position as minister in 1662))
ASHTON, John (Protestant Jacobite, hanged
in 1691)
AYLWORTH, William (i.e., William Harcourt, q.v.)
BAKER, John (an Englishman allegedly put to death
by the Spanish Inquisition)
BALSOM, Robert (Puritan divine, condemned to be hanged,
but reprieved)
BALL, John (Persecuted for fasting on Ascension day)
BARCLAY, Robert (Quaker apologist, persecuted and
imprisoned)
BASTWICK, John (Puritan controversialist, condemned
along with Henry Burton and William Prynne)
BATES,
Thomas (hanged for his part in the Gunpowder Plot)
BEDLOE, William (perjurer in the Popish Plot of
1678)
BURGATE, William (an Englishman allegedly put to
death by the Spanish Inquisition)
BURGES, William (an Englishman allegedly put to death
by the Spanish Inquisition)
BURTON, Henry (Puritan divine who had his ears chopped
off)
BURTON, Nicholas (an Englishman put to death by the
Spanish Inquisition)
CAPEL, Lord Arthur, Lord of Hadham (Royalist leader,
beheaded in 1649)
CAREW, Nicholas (accused of treasonable correspondence
with Reginald Pole; beheaded in 1539)
CARTWRIGHT, Thomas (Puritan divine, imprisoned for
refusing to take the ex oficio oath)
CATESBY,
Robert (Gunpowder plotter)
CLARKE, Hugh (Puritan divine, imprisoned for treason,
but acquitted at trial)
CLARKE, Samuel (martyrologist)
COLEMAN,
Edward (executed in 1678 as an alleged conspirator in the Popish Plot)
CORKER, James Maurice (Catholic chronicler of
Catholics condemned and executed for their alleged part in the "Popish plot"
of 1678; also accused of being involved in the plot himself)
COURTENAY, Henry, Marquis of Exeter (associated with
Cardinal Reginald Pole; accused of treason and executed in 1538)
DIGBY, Edward, or Everard (Implicated in the Gunpowder plot)
DINGLEY,
Thomas, Knight of St. John's (associate of Reginald Pole; beheaded in 1539
for treason)
DOD, John (Puritan divine, "silenced" for his views)
DUGDALE, Stephen (perjurer in the Popish Plot
of 1678)
FAWKES, Guido or Guy (Gunpowder plotter)
FENWICK,
John (executed in 1679 as an alleged conspirator in the Popish Plot)
FISHER, John, Bishop of Rochester (beheaded in 1535
for refusing to accept the Act of Succession)
FISHER, John, Jesuit (discussed religion with Archbishop
Laud, q.v., and imprisoned several times for his beliefs)
FITZGERALD, Thomas, Earl of Kildare (beheaded in 1537
for his part in the Lincolnshire rebellion)
FOREST, John (friar; burned in 1538 for denying the
king's supremacy)
FORREST, Henry (burned in 1553 for asserting that
Patrick Hamilton was a good man)
FORTESCUE, Adrian (beheaded as an accomplice of Reginald
Pole in 1539)
FRITH,
John (Protestant martyr; burned in 1533)
GAVAN, John (executed in 1679 as an alleged conspirator
in the Popish Plot)
GARNET, Henry (Superior of the Jesuits in England, executed for his part in the Gunpowder Plot)
GERARD, or GERRARD, John (Jesuit priest implicated in the Gunpowder Plot)
GLYN,
or GLYNN, Sir John (parliamentary speaker on behalf of Charles I)
GODFREY, Edmund Berry (justice of the peace; murdered
in 1678, fuelling the panic engendered by the allegations of the Popish Plot)
GRAHAM, Richard, Viscount Preston (Protestant
Jacobite, condemned to death, and pardoned in 1691)
GRANT
or GRAUNT, John (implicated in the Gunpowder Plot)
GREEN, Robert (executed in 1679 as an alleged
conspirator in the Popish Plot)
GREENWELL,
or GREENWELL, Oswald (i.e., Oswald Tesmond, q.v.)
GROVE, John (executed in 1679 as an alleged conspirator
in the Popish Plot)
GOWER, Stanley (his account of Richard Rothwel, q.v.,
appeared in the martyrology of Samuel Clarke, q.v.)
HAMILTON, Patrick (burned in Scotland for his Protestant
beliefs)
HARCOURT, Thomas (executed in 1679 as an alleged
conspirator in the Popish Plot)
HARCOURT, William (executed in 1679 as an alleged
conspirator in the Popish Plot)
HERBERT, Lord, of Cherbury (17th century chronicler
of King Henry VIII)
HERRING, Julines (Puritan divine, whom Laud [q.v.]
wanted to "pickle")
HILDERSAM, Arthur (Silenced and imprisoned for Nonconformism)
HILL, Lawrence (executed in 1679 as an alleged
conspirator in the Popish Plot)
HOOKER, William (an Englishman allegedly stoned to
death in Spain)
HOWARD, William, Viscount Stafford (executed in
1680 as an alleged conspirator in the Popish Plot)
HOWGILL, Francis (Quaker, died in prison in 1689)
HYDE, Henry, Earl of Clarendon (implicated
in the Jacobite plot of 1690-91)
IRELAND, William (executed in 1679 as an alleged
conspirator in the Popish Plot)
IRONMONGER, William (i.e. William Ireland, q.v.)
JENISON, Thomas (an alleged conspirator in the
Popish Plot, died in prison in 1679[?])
KEYES
or KEYS, Robert (Implicated in the Gunpowder Plot)
LAMBERT, John (burned in 1538 for denying the real
presence of Christ in the sacrament)
LANGHORN, Richard (executed in 1679 as an alleged
conspirator in the Popish Plot)
LAUD, William, Archbishop of Canterbury (persecutor
of Puritans and finally, in 1645, beheaded by them)
LEGGE, George, Baron Dartmouth (implicated
in the Jacobite plot of 1690-91)
LOVE, Christopher (Presbyterian royalist, beheaded in
1651)
MORE, Sir Thomas (beheaded in 1535 for refusing to
accept the Act of Succession)