Margaret Polley
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Margaret Polley from Popingberry, Rochester, Kent was a sixteenth-century English Protestant martyr. Her story is recorded is Foxe's Book of Martyrs
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She was questioned by Maurice Griffin, bishop of Rochester, was condemned to death for heresy and kept in prison for over a month. John Foxe
wrote that she was in the prime of her life, pious, charitable, humane, learned in the Scriptures, and beloved by all who knew her..
She was executed in July 1555 in Tunbridge, on the same day as Christopher Wade
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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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She was questioned by Maurice Griffin, bishop of Rochester, was condemned to death for heresy and kept in prison for over a month. John Foxe
John Foxe
John Foxe was an English historian and martyrologist, the author of what is popularly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs, , an account of Christian martyrs throughout Western history but emphasizing the sufferings of English Protestants and proto-Protestants from the fourteenth century through the...
wrote that she was in the prime of her life, pious, charitable, humane, learned in the Scriptures, and beloved by all who knew her..
She was executed in July 1555 in Tunbridge, on the same day as Christopher Wade
Christopher Wade
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.-References:...
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