Saint Augustine Webster was an English Catholic martyr. In English history, Recusant was generally synonymous with nonconformist. ...
Educated at Cambridge University He became the prior of Our Lady of Melwood, a Carthusian house at Epworth, on the Isle of Axholme, North Lincolnshire in 1531. Imprisoned and executed at Tyburn in 1535 on the orders of Thomas Cromwell when he refused to take the Oath of Supremacy. He was hanged, beheaded and quartered at Tyburn on May 4, 1534. Canonised 1970 The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, with one of the most selective sets of entry requirements in the United Kingdom. ... A Carthusian Monastery in Jerez, Spain The Carthusians are a Christian religious order founded by St Bruno in 1084. ... Epworth is a town in Lincolnshire, England. ... The Isle of Axholme is an area located in Lincolnshire, between the three towns of Doncaster, Scunthorpe and Gainsborough. ... Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in the East Midlands of England. ... Thomas Cromwell: detail from a portrait by Hans Holbein, 1532-3 Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex ( 1485 - July 28, 1540) was an English statesman, one of the most important political figures of the reign of Henry VIII of England. ... The Oath of Supremacy, imposed by the Act of Supremacy 1559, provided for any person taking public or church office to swear allegiance to the monarch as Supreme Governor of the Church of England. ... Tyburn was a former village in the county of Middlesex which now forms part of Londons City of Westminster. ... May 4 is the 124th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (125th in leap years). ... Events February 27 - Group of Anabaptists of Jan Matthys seize Münster and declare it The New Jerusalem - they begin to exile dissenters and forcible baptize all others May 10 - Jacques Cartier explores Newfoundland while searching for the Northwest Passage. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ...
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