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The Coventry Martyrs were a disparate group of Lollard Christians executed for their beliefs in Coventry between 1512 – 1522 (seven men and two women) and in 1555 (three men). Eleven of them are commemorated by a six-metre high monument, erected in 1910 in a public garden in the city, between Little Park Street and Mile Lane; and by a <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/pikerslanefarm/32865209302">mosaic</a> constructed in 1953 inside the entrance to Broadgate House in the city centre. The Coventry Martyrs were a group of Lollard Christians executed for their beliefs in Coventry between 1512 – 1522 (seven men and two women) and in 1555 (three men). Those martyred were - Joan Ward (or Washingby). She was burnt at Coventry on 12 March 1512. Master Archer (a shoemaker), Thomas Bond (a shoemaker), Master Hawkins (a shoemaker or skinner), Robert Hockett, or Hatchet, or Hatchets (a shoemaker or leather-dresser), Thomas Lansdail or Lansdale (a hosier) and Master Wrigsham (a glover) were all burned on 4 April 1520. A widow, Mistress Smith, was due to be discharged when a document was discovered in her sleeve, containing (in English) the Lord’s Prayer, Ten Commandments and Apostles' Creed. For this, she was immediately condemned and burnt with the others. Robert Silkeby (or Silkby or Silkesby) was burnt on 13 January 1522. The three martyrs burnt during the reign of Mary Tudor were- Laurence Saunders burnt in the city on 8 February 1555. Robert Glover burnt in Coventry on 20 September 1555. Cornelius Bongey, or Bungey, was a tradesman (hatmaker), and was executed on the same day as Glover. |
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| Author | Amanda Slater from Coventry, West Midlands, UK |
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