Anne Askew (1521 - 16 July 1546) was an English member of the Reformed Church who was persecuted as a heretic and then burned at the stake. Events January 3 - Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther. ... July 16 is the 197th day (198th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 168 days remaining. ... Events Spanish conquest of Yucatan Peace between England and France Foundation of Trinity College, Cambridge by Henry VIII of England Katharina von Bora flees to Magdeburg Science Architecture Michelangelo Buonarroti is made chief architect of St. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Religion... The Reformed churches are a group of Protestant denominations historically related by a similar Zwinglian or Calvinist system of doctrine but organizationally independent. ... Heretic, meaning literally a person guilty or accused of heresy, is also often used as a title. ...

Born at Stallingborough into a notable family of Lincolnshire, she was forced by her father Sir William Askew to marry the Catholic Thomas Kyme, as a substitute for her sister who had died. Although the couple had two children, the marriage did not go well, not least because of her strong Protestant beliefs. After she went to London to preach against the doctrine of transubstantiation, her husband turned her out of the house. She then went again to London to ask for a divorce, justifying it from scripture (1 Corinthians, 7.15), on the grounds that her husband was not a believer. Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in the East Midlands of England, traditionally the second largest after Yorkshire. ... According to Roman Catholic dogma, transubstantiation is the change of the substance of the Eucharistic elements — bread and wine — into the body and blood of Jesus (although they retain the physical accidents — i. ... Greater London and the Regions of England. ... Divorce or dissolution of marriage is the ending of a marriage, which can be contrasted with an annulment which is a declaration that a marriage is void, though the effects of marriage may be recognized in such unions, such as spousal support, child custody and distribution of property. ... (Redirected from 1 Corinthians) See also: Second Epistle to the Corinthians and Third Epistle to the Corinthians The First Epistle to the Corinthians is a book of the Bible in the New Testament. ...

Askew enlisted her friends at court for support, in particular Catherine Parr, but Parr could not save Askew from charges of heresy; in 1545 the young woman imprisoned, interrogated, and tortured on the rack, in the hopes that she would implicate Parr. Askew did not break under the months of torture, although she was too badly crippled to walk to the stake. Catherine Parr (about 1512 - September 7, 1548), also spelled Katharine, was the Queen Consort of Henry VIII of England 1543-1547; the last wife of his six. ... Events February 27 - Battle of Ancrum Moor - Scots victory over superior English forces December 13 - Official opening of the Council of Trent (closed 1563) Births April 2 - Elizabeth of Valois, Queen of Philip II of Spain (d. ... Rack may refer to any of the following: The rack is a torture device. ...

During the ordeal, she wrote a first-person account of her ordeal and her beliefs, which was published as the Examinations by John Bale, and later in John Foxe's Acts and Monuments of 1563. John Bale (21 November 1495 - November, 1563) was an English author and churchman, Bishop of Ossory. ... John Foxe, line engraving by George Glover, first published in the 1641 edition of Actes and Monuments John Foxe (1516 - April 8, 1587) is remembered as the author of the famous Foxes Book of Martyrs. ... The Book of Martyrs , by John Foxe (first published in 1563, with many subsequent editions), is an account of the persecutions of the church reformers and Protestants, mainly in England. ...

Reference

• Elaine V. Beilin, ed., The Examinations of Anne Askew (Oxford, 1996) ISBN 0195108493

External link

• A ballad written by Anne Askew (http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poem2821.html)