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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.
Gardiner is the villain in Alison MacLeod's 1965 historical novel The Heretic, a biography of the Protestant martyr Anne Askew, of whose execution Gardiner was the main instigator.
Anne Askew: Stallingborough, Lincolnshire [47] wife of Master Thomas Kyme, a farmer and landowner of Friskney, Lincolnshire [47] burnt 16 July 1546 Smithfield, London [48] 59. Nicholas Belenian: Shropshire: clergyman – priest [49] 60. John Adams: Colchester, Essex [50] tailor 61. John Lassells: Gateford, Nottinghamshire courtier 62 ...
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.
Jane Dudley belonged also to the courtly sympathizers of Anne Askew, whom she contacted during her imprisonment in 1545–1546. The forthright Protestant was burnt at the stake as a heretic in July 1546 on the contrivance of the religiously conservative court party around Bishop Stephen Gardiner .
Dudley and the Queen's brother, William Parr, 1st Earl of Essex, tried to convince Anne Askew to conform to the Catholic doctrines of the Henrician Church, yet she replied "it was great shame for them to counsel contrary to their knowledge". [1] In September Dudley struck Gardiner in the face during a full meeting of the council.
Laxton's part in the first inquisition of the Protestant martyr Anne Askew is told in her own words. Having been detained under the Six Articles Act for her association with Evangelicals, she went before an inquisition led by Christopher Dare. She was then questioned by Laxton (as the temporal authority) on the same points.
Anne Askew (1521–1546), tortured in the Tower of London and martyred in Smithfield for Protestantism; Joan Bocher (?–1550), English Anabaptist martyr in Smithfield; Elizabeth Pepper (?–1556), martyred while pregnant for Protestantism, together with Agnes George