bilney

Updated: June 22, 2025

Shaxton, who had flinched from the stake when Bilney was burnt, Shaxton, who subsequently relapsed under Mary, and became himself a Romanist persecutor, was now strutting in his new authority, and punishing, suspending, and inhibiting in behalf of Protestant doctrines which were not yet tolerated by the law.

James Anthony Froude - History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II.