22 December – Two Protestants betrayed by a spy and Bishop Fisher begs for a shirt
Joel Ridgway | December 22, 2021
On this day in Tudor history, 22nd December 1557, Protestant martyrs John Rough and Margaret Mearing, were burnt at Smithfield for heresy. John Rough was a Scot who’d encouraged John Knox to be a pastor, but ended in days in England. Interestingly, the woman he died with was a woman he’d excommunicated from his congregation, […]
