Comments on: Lincolnshire Martyrs ~ Early English Catholic Martyrs

Comment on Lincolnshire Martyrs ~ Early English Catholic Martyrs by: Rod

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 09:57:14 +0000

Hi Bruce,
thanks for the comment and welcome to the site - an interesting connection and it sounds like there’s something in it
Best
Rod

Comment on Lincolnshire Martyrs ~ Early English Catholic Martyrs by: Bruce

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 07:52:57 +0000

Hi
I’m not too conversant with a lot of English history but I thought that I’d share with you a couple of things.
I have some correspondence to my grandfather in NZ from his brother in UK in the 1930s that refers to their sister who had mentioned that she was in possession of a teaspoon with the letter M engraved on it. She was adamant that the M on the spoon related to ‘Bishop Mackerell’ (an ancestor) which she believed had been passed down through the family. The brother was quite skeptical about it and said something to the effect that he’d never heard about it and that though his sister might be losing it!
Quite by coincidence not long after reading this I was browsing through a book that I’d acquired from my grandmother who had died some years before, entitled ‘The History of the Reformation’ (pub. circa 1870). Where the story of the Lincolnshire Rebels was retold, there was a bookmark. It has always intrigued me why the book was in the family and also why this particular page was referenced.
At one stage I tried to find if there was in fact a connection but it appears the name is ‘antique’ and there are few Mackerell connections although I have met one Australian Mackerell who had also tried to find connections.
Regards
Bruce

Comment on Lincolnshire Martyrs ~ Early English Catholic Martyrs by: Rod

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:47:05 +0000

I’m finding some interesting things, not to mention confusing, about Cardinal John Fisher !
Executed 1535 and a ‘martyr’

Comment on Lincolnshire Martyrs ~ Early English Catholic Martyrs by: Rod

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:31:39 +0000

Hi Father Edward (hope that’s right)
thanks for the comment and welcome to the site - I do hope you’ll return.
I’ll do some digging into John Fysher and post anything I can find as perhaps will others who read this either now or in the future

Hope you have more luck than your predecessor
Regards
Rod - off to research now

Comment on Lincolnshire Martyrs ~ Early English Catholic Martyrs by: Fr Edward Martin

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:12:26 +0000

Can anyone point me to any information regarding John Fysher of Scartho, Priest, condemned at Lincoln 6 March 1537? I’m the current Incumbent at Scartho.

Fr Edward Martin

Comment on Lincolnshire Martyrs ~ Early English Catholic Martyrs by: Rod

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:23:55 +0000

Peter,
that’s a great addition, many thanks indeed - I’m absolutely fascinated by religious history.
I have to do an article on Anne Askew Peter, it first came up when I did Stalingborough church and she’s more than worthy of her own page as it were.

Thanks again for contributing Peter
All the best
Rod

Comment on Lincolnshire Martyrs ~ Early English Catholic Martyrs by: Peter Mullins

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:18:32 +0000

Missing from the list is perhaps the most famous name: St Augustine Webster, Prior of the Charterhouse on the Isle of Axholme. Following the Act of Supremacy in 1534, he was one of a small group who went to Thomas Cromwell to try to negotiate a form of words for an oath with which both Henry VIII and they would be satisfied; a different group had had some success with this approach at an earlier stage. They were arrested, and on 4th May became the first to be executed under the terms of the Act. The date continues to be the main Roman Catholic celebration of its English reformation martrs, and both a Catholic Primary School in Scunthorpe and the Catholic Church in Barton on Humber are called ‘St Augustine Webster’s’. The 1980 Church of England calendar commemorated ‘the Saints and Martyrs of the Reformation Era’ (the use of the word ‘Era’ is an ecumenical gesture) on what the Lutherans call Reformation Day in October, but the revised 2000 calendar now uses 4th May as well. Also (inevitably) missing from your list is the closest martyr to you on the western edge of Grimsby (Anne Askew of Stallingborough, burnt to death under Mary I) but then she was a Protestant.

Comment on Lincolnshire Martyrs ~ Early English Catholic Martyrs by: Francis

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:57:32 +0000

Rod, Many Thanks for the information. Francis

Comment on Lincolnshire Martyrs ~ Early English Catholic Martyrs by: Rod

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:54:45 +0000

Hi Francis,
the names come from a book published in the 1890s called Lincolnshire Notes & Queries
Best
Rod

Comment on Lincolnshire Martyrs ~ Early English Catholic Martyrs by: Francis

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:52:53 +0000

Afternoon Rod,

Could you please let me know where you found the list of Lincolnshire Martyrs (re your comments Dec 5 2009). As I think that Fr. Henry of Newark (Litherland) should be included on this list. May have to go to the Vatican for approval of course! Many Thanks Francis