Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 556
f Angouleme in particular was the scene of many such cruelties(Fig. 340). The dominant party was everywhere guilty of extreme intolerance, but THE INQ UISITION. 443 nowhere was the persecution carried on upon so large a scale as in unhappyEngland. Protestant writers cannot find expressions strong… … Fig. 341.—Punishments decreed by Henry VIII. against the Catholics.—A. John Fisher, Cardinal-Bishop of Eochester, eighty years of age, condemned to death on the 17th of June, 1535, isbeheaded on the 22nd of the same month. B. Chancellor Thomas More is also beheaded onthe 9th of July, 1535. C. The…
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