Seven Parents Condemned to be Burned at the Stake in 1519

Six fathers and one widow arrested on Ash Wednesday 1519 in Coventry, England.
The charge, teaching their children the Lord’s Prayer in English.

Learning and saying the Lord’s Prayer back then in any language other than Latin was illegal. The punishment was a fiery death on the stake.

The widow was set free, maybe because she was a widow with no husband to help raise her children.

But, when she was escorted home by a bishop, he found a document in her sleeve containing The Lord’s Prayer, the Ten Commandments and the Articles of Faith, and she was arrested again and imprisoned.

The seven were condemned to death. They were tied to three stakes and burned until dead in a place called The Little Park April 4th, 1519:

Master Archer, Thomas Bond, Master Hawkins, Robert Hockett, Thomas Landial, Master Wigham, Mistress Smith.

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