The execution of William Sawtrey from Foxe's Book of Martyrs
William Sawtrey, also known as William Salter[1] (died March 1401) was an English Roman Catholic priest and Lollard martyr. He was executed for heresy.
Sawtrey was born in Norfolk, England. He was a follower of John Wycliffe, the leader of an early reformation movement called Lollardy.
^Knight, Charles (1547). A History of England, Volume 2. p. 45. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
WilliamSawtrey, also known as William Salter (died March 1401) was an English Roman Catholic priest and Lollard martyr. He was executed for heresy. Sawtrey...
the Bible. Death by burning is the punishment for heresy. 2 March – WilliamSawtrey, a Lollard, is the first person to be burned at the stake at Smithfield...
King of Germany, is crowned King of the Romans at Cologne. March 2 – WilliamSawtrey, a Lollard, is the first person to be burned at the stake at Smithfield...
before convocation and, unable to face death by burning, like that of WilliamSawtrey, he recanted at St Paul's Cross in London and returned to orthodoxy...
during his reign. Just one year after his death, however, in 1401, WilliamSawtrey was burnt alive for heresy. Death by burning for heresy was formally...
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explicitly rejecting the authority of the Church.: 321, 322 In March 1401 WilliamSawtrey became the first Lollard to be burned. The Oxford Constitutions, established...
placed on the city's gates People charged with and convicted of heresy: WilliamSawtrey (1401) John Badby (1410) Thomas Bagley (1431) Richard Bayfield (1531)...
authoritative Arundel. Its passing was immediately followed by the burning of WilliamSawtrey, curate of St Margaret's, Lynn. He had previously abjured but had relapsed...
dealing with heretics. On 1 May 1399, WilliamSawtrey, a Norfolk curate and a Lollard, was examined before him. Sawtrey recanted his heresies in public and...
founded in 1147 by Simon de Senlis grandson of Judith of Lens, niece of William the Conqueror who owned land in many parts of Britain but built her Manor...
Map of Monastic Britain, North Sheet, Ordnance Survey, 2nd edition, 1955 William Cobbett, List Of Abbeys, Priories, Nunneries, Hospitals: And Other Religious...
Houses in England and Wales 1066–1216, Boydell [ISBN missing] Cobbett, William (1868) List of Abbeys, Priories, Nunneries, Hospitals, And Other Religious...
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