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Martyrs of Henry VIII - Repression, Defiance, Sacrifice (Hardcover)
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Martyrs of Henry VIII - Repression, Defiance, Sacrifice (Hardcover)
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When Henry VIII passed through Canterbury in 1532, a young woman in
her mid-twenties named Elizabeth Barton, widely revered as a
visionary and prophetess, burst into his presence and warned him
that he was 'so abominable in the sight of God that he was not
worthy to tread on hallowed ground'. Two years later, the self-same
'Holy Maid of Kent' would suffer a grisly fate at Tyburn and
trigger a wave of bloody repression that consumed not only Sir
Thomas More, but two other less widely-known individuals, whose
exceptional sacrifices were, arguably, even more compelling. One
was a combative cleric as renowned for his integrity as his
intellect, prepared to sacrifice both life and country in defence
of Queen Catherine of Aragon and the old religion; the other a
courtier-turned-ascetic, plucked from the shelter of the cloister
by a religious and political revolution, in which he had little
stake beyond the dictates of his own conscience. For these three
unique individuals of widely contrasting backgrounds, temperaments
and motives, drawn together at a critical watershed in English
history by a common cause and destiny, the path to Tyburn was a
long and painful one, paved with fear, hardships, vilification and
intrigue.
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