The burning of thirteen martyrs simultaneously at Stratford-le-Bow in June 1556 was one of the most dramatic acts of the Marian persecution. The mass execution was intended to intimidate London's artisan Protestant community. Instead it horrified observers and was remembered as one of the defining atrocities of the reign. The East London location connected the martyrs to the cloth-working Protestant communities of Essex and the Thames Estuary.
Thirteen burned together
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