ASKEW, ANNE

ASKEW, ANNE
   a lady of good birth, a victim of persecution in the time of Henry VIII. for denying transubstantiation, tortured on the rack and burnt at the stake, 1546.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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