• Edward Wightman (1566 – 11 April 1612) was an English radical Anabaptist minister, executed at Lichfield on charges of heresy; he was the last person...
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  • Burning of Edward Wightman: Puritanism, Prelacy and the Politics of Heresy in Early Modern England, (2005). Atherton, Burning of Edward Wightman. Atherton...
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  • Cathryn Wightman (born 1978), Australian synchronized swimmer Edith Wightman (1938–1983), British historian and archaeologist Edward Wightman (1566–1612)...
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    convicted of blasphemous heresy and was burned at the stake, along with Edward Wightman. Another dissenter, the General Baptist leader Thomas Helwys, appealed...
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  • important Baptist figures in the struggle were John Smyth, Thomas Helwys, Edward Wightman, Leonard Busher, Roger Williams (who was a Baptist for a short period...
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    are listed in Actes and Monuments, written by Foxe in 1563 and 1570. Edward Wightman, a radical Anabaptist from Burton on Trent, who publicly denied the...
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  • Arthur Strong Wightman (March 30, 1922 – January 13, 2013) was an American mathematical physicist. He was one of the founders of the axiomatic approach...
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    causing harm by witchcraft on August 18. April 11 – In Lichfield, Edward Wightman, a radical Anabaptist, becomes the last person to be burned at the...
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    burning at the stake for heresy in England took place in Lichfield, when Edward Wightman from Burton upon Trent was executed by burning in the Market Place...
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  • for blasphemy. His execution occurred 85 years after the death of Edward Wightman (1612), the last person to be burned at the stake for heresy in England...
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  •  1581 Fausto Paolo Sozzini, 1604 John Milton, 1608–1674. (disputed) Edward Wightman, 1612, burned at the stake Isaac Newton, 1642–1726/27 John Biddle,...
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  • Norwich, England Bartholomew Legate (1575–1612), Smithfield, England Edward Wightman (1566–1612), relapsed heretic, Lichfield, England Michael Servetus...
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    of heresy. Persons declared guilty, such as Bartholomew Legate and Edward Wightman, could still be burned under a writ of de heretico comburendo issued...
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  • and Unitarian Universalist churches Religion in the United Kingdom Edward Wightman, early General Baptist Hill, Christopher (1977), Milton and the English...
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    causing harm by witchcraft on August 18. April 11 – In Lichfield, Edward Wightman, a radical Anabaptist, becomes the last person to be burned at the...
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    2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 25 Aug 2014 Stephen Wright, 'Wightman, Edward (bap. 1580?, d. 1612)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford...
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    exorcist John Darrell. Also he had connections with the heresy case of Edward Wightman, burned in 1612. Around 1615, he encountered Francis Higginson, who...
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  • description by Arthur Jaffe and Edward Witten. The problem requires the construction of a QFT satisfying the Wightman axioms and showing the existence...
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  • Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian and author (b. 1535) 1612 – Edward Wightman, English minister and martyr (b. 1566) 1626 – Marino Ghetaldi, Ragusan...
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    Those holding this view include: 1600s: Sussex Baptists d. 1612: Edward Wightman 1627: Samuel Gardner 1628: Samuel Przypkowski 1636: George Wither 1637:...
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    last burning at the stake for heresy in England, that of the Arian Edward Wightman in 1612.[citation needed] Oliver Cromwell made only one speech during...
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  • AD 64) Philip the Apostle (AD 80) Michael Servetus (1553) heresy Edward Wightman (1612) heresy Lucilio Vanini (1619) apostasy Manoranjan Bhattacharya...
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  • London for his religious opinions, and died just three weeks before Edward Wightman, who was burned at Lichfield in April 1612, the last to suffer in this...
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  • Joseph Wightman (1806 – February 6, 1887) was a Scottish-born farmer, merchant and political figure on Prince Edward Island. He served in the Legislative...
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  • (1631–1705, England/New England, p) Susan Wiggs (born 1958, US, f) Edward Wightman (c. 1580–1612, England, nf) Henry Wilberforce (1807–1873, England,...
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  • Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley, 1957–1994. Edward Wightman (d.1612), nontrinitarian Baptist pastor, last person burnt at the stake...
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  • cloth-dealer and last of the Smithfield victims; and the twice-burned Edward Wightman (1612). In all these, cases the anti-Trinitarian sentiments seem to...
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    including that of Francis Kett in 1589, and Bartholomew Legate and Edward Wightman in 1612, after they in 1609 published a Latin version of the Racovian...
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  • anti-Trinitarian, is burnt at the stake in London for heresy. 11 April – Edward Wightman, a radical Anabaptist, is burnt at the stake in Lichfield for heresy...
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  • in Stafford) a Roman Catholic priest and martyr, beatified in 1987. Edward Wightman (c.1580–1612), a General Baptist, last religious martyr to be burnt...
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