Thomas WolseyApril 1521
Execution of Edward Stafford for high treason
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Execution of Edward Stafford for high treason
Executed for refusing to acknowledge the King as Head of the Church. Deprived of his position of Bishop of Rochester by the Act of Attainder, treated as a commoner, and tried by jury, found guilty, and condemned to be hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn
Sentenced to be hanged, drawn, and quartered (the usual punishment for traitors) but the King commutes this to execution by beheading
While on the scaffold declares that he died "the King's good servant, but Gods first". Executed for refusing to acknowledge the act of supremacy
Henry VIII commutes Mores sentence to beheading & permits Mores family to attend
William Tyndale is executed in the Low Countries
The first of many to be executed for heresy in an attempt to restore Catholicism
Fawkes, Wintour, Ambrose, Rookwood & Keyes are hanged, drawn & quartered
Greene is executed at Tyburn for exercising his Catholic priesthood.
Roe is executed at Tyburn after conviction as a Catholic priest.
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