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Anne Askew (sometimes spelled Ayscough or Ascue), married name Anne Kyme (1521 – 16 July 1546), [1] was an English writer, poet, and Protestant preacher who was condemned as a heretic during the reign of Henry VIII of England.
The Protestant martyr Anne Askew, daughter of Sir William Askew, Knight of Lincolnshire, was tortured on the rack before her execution in 1546 (age 25). She was so damaged by the torture on the rack that she had to be carried on a chair to her burning at the stake.
But as Lord Chancellor he became notorious for torturing Anne Askew, a self-confessed Protestant, personally operating the wheel on the rack. [16] The Catholic faction was determined to root out heresy, suspecting Queen Catherine's influence over the royal children.
In 1541 he was knighted and became gentleman-porter of Calais and soon after was made Lieutenant of the Tower, in which post he figures, not dishonourably, in Foxe’s account of the torture of Anne Askew. [10] In Anne Askew's own words: Then the Lieftenaunt caused me to be loosed from the racke.
Gardiner even has one woman, Anne Askew (not one of Catherine's ladies, but a notable religious writer and speaker whose works Catherine had read), put to the rack. Catherine is horrified by Askew's story and confronts her husband and Gardiner.
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In 1546, the staunch Protestant Anne Askew was tortured on the rack at the Tower of London and burned at the stake in Smithfield for heresy. [26] In the reign of Mary I, 78 were burned in London alone. [127] After her reign, John Foxe collected stories of Protestant martyrs in his Acts and Monuments, published in Aldersgate. [130]
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