- 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.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
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