- 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. James Wood. 1907.
ASKEW, ANNE
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