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    Anne Askew (sometimes spelled Ayscough or Ascue), married name Anne Kyme (1521 – 16 July 1546), was an English writer, poet, and Protestant preacher who...
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    down in history as one of the jurors in the trial of Anne Boleyn and as the father of Anne Askew, one of only two women to be tortured at the Tower of...
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  • Elizabeth and Edward. Katherine takes risks to meet up with an old friend, Anne Askew, who is preaching  Protestantism and who is later executed as a heretic...
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    executions were normally attended by large crowds. For the killing in 1546 of Anne Askew, charged with heresy and tortured at the Tower of London, a "Substantial...
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  • American basketball player Anne Askew (1520/1521–1546), English poet and Protestant persecuted as a heretic Anthony Askew (fl. 1699–1774), English physician...
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    Jerome, Letter I, to Innocent, ¶ 3 Askew, Anne (1996). Beilin, Elaine V. (ed.). The Examinations of Anne Askew. New York: Oxford University Press. Котошихин...
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    1546, fellow Protestant Anne Askew was arrested for heresy. Those who opposed the Queen tried to gain a confession from Askew that the Queen, her sister...
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  • fourth season of Showtime's show The Tudors as the Protestant martyr Anne Askew. In 2011, she appeared in a small role in Series 5 of Skins. In 2013 she...
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    Chloe alongside Poppy Gilbert as Becky. She was also cast to portray Anne Askew in the psychological horror film Firebrand in 2023. In 2024, she played...
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  • and the sinking of the Mary Rose (1545), the burning at the stake of Anne Askew (1546), the publication of The Lamentation of a Sinner (1547), Kett's...
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    martyrs Thomas More and John Fisher as well as that of Protestant martyr Anne Askew. According to some sources, Rich was born in the London parish of St Lawrence...
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  • Wendy Anne Askew (née Bushby; formerly Summers; born 16 March 1963) is an Australian politician who is a Senator for Tasmania, representing the Liberal...
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  • Tragedy: Passages in the Life of the Faire Gospeller, Mistress Anne Askew (1866) (about Anne Askew) Jacques Bonneval, or the Days of the Dragonnades (1867)...
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  • affectionate match, one which suited not only the buyer, but also the wife". Anne Askew Dodds, M. H. (2 December 1911). "Lady Bulmer Alias Margaret Cheyne". Notes...
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  • described by John Bale as the "instructour" of his friend, the sacramentarian Anne Askew, and is considered by a modern historian, A. G. Dickens, to have been...
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    noblewoman Anne Ashworth (1842–1921), British feminist activist Anne Askew (1521–1546), English writer, poet, and Protestant martyr Anne Astin, Australian...
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  • 1540), Smithfield, England Thomas Gerrard († 1540), Smithfield, England Anne Askew (1521–1546), Smithfield, England John Lascelles († 1546), Smithfield,...
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    mayoralty fell the second interrogation and condemnation of the Protestant Anne Askew, who was burnt at the stake for heresy in 1546. In 1547 and 1553, (during...
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    executed. Women were less likely to be among those so condemned; even so, Anne Askew, a writer from an important Lincolnshire family with family connections...
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    religious outlook, she was also a supporter of the Protestant martyr Anne Askew. Under the young Edward VI, John Dudley became one of the most powerful...
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  • heresy of Anne Askew. In 1552, she was sent to the Tower of London for having practised sorcery and having made "treasonous prophecies". Anne was the daughter...
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    Reformed party at court, and both their wives were among the friends of Anne Askew, the Protestant martyr destroyed by Bishop Stephen Gardiner in July 1546...
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    1965 historical novel The Heretic, a biography of the Protestant martyr Anne Askew, of whose execution Gardiner was the main instigator. Gardiner is played...
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    Ainscough is an Old Norse, Scandinavian surname, also spelled Ayscough, Aiskew, Askew, Ascough and Aynscough. It is thought that the name is derived from the...
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    Katarzyna Weiglowa († 1539) Maria van Beckum and Ursula van Beckum († 1544) Anne Askew (1521–1546), tortured in the Tower of London and martyred in Smithfield...
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  • influential Protestant thinkers of the period, including Tyndale, John Calvin, Anne Askew, John Foxe and Richard Hooker; as well as selections from the Book of...
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    used to effectively target their rivals. It was during this time that Anne Askew was tortured in the Tower of London and burnt at the stake. Even Henry's...
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    accession of Elizabeth I, Eworth in 1560 painted the Protestant Martyr Anne Askew, burned at the stake on charges of heresy. Over the next decade, Eworth...
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    Martyrs: 207. John Athy, John Heywood, Kerby, and Roger Clarke Diane Watt, 'Askew , Anne (c. 1521–1546)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University...
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  • Executed for treason. German Gardiner 7 March 1544 Executed for treason. Anne Askew 16 July 1546 Burned at the stake in Smithfield for heresy Henry Howard...
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