Christopher Wade
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Christopher Wade was an English Protestant martyr. His story is recorded in Foxe's Book of Martyrs
.
He was executed by burning in July 1555, on the same day as Margaret Polley
, in Dartford
, Kent. He had been condemned by Maurice Griffith
, bishop of Rochester.
Foxe's Book of Martyrs
The Book of Martyrs, by John Foxe, more accurately Acts and Monuments, is an account from a Protestant point of view of Christian church history and martyrology...
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He was executed by burning in July 1555, on the same day as Margaret Polley
Margaret Polley
Margaret Polley from Popingberry, Rochester, Kent was a sixteenth-century English Protestant martyr. Her story is recorded is Foxe's Book of Martyrs....
, in Dartford
Dartford
Dartford is the principal town in the borough of Dartford. It is situated in the northwest corner of Kent, England, east south-east of central London....
, Kent. He had been condemned by Maurice Griffith
Maurice Griffith
Maurice Griffith was a Welshman who became Bishop of Rochester.Little is known of his birth but it is thought to have been in the Caernarfon area around 1507. He was a friar at Blackfriars, Oxford and in 1535 was appointed by John Hilsey, then Bishop of Rochester, to be his Vicar-General...
, bishop of Rochester.