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	Nicholas Ridley (martyr) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nicholas Ridley (died October 16, 1555) was an English clergyman.
		He was burned at the stake, a martyr for his teachings and his support of Lady Jane Grey, along with Hugh Latimer on October 16, 1555 in Oxford.
		Ridley College, a private school in St. Catharines, Ontario, was founded under his name in 1889.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nicholas_Ridley_(martyr) (388 words)

	Nicholas Ridley (martyr)
		He succeeded to the Bishopric in 1549-50, and shortly after coming to office, directed that the altars in the churches of his diocese should be removed, and tables put in their place to celebrate the Lord's Supper.
		He was martyred for his teachings along with Hugh Latimer on October 16, 1555 in Oxford.
		Nicholas Ridley was also the name of a prominent British MP in the 1980s: see Nicholas Ridley (politician).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ni/Nicholas_Ridley_(martyr).html (277 words)

	NICHOLAS RIDLEY - LoveToKnow Article on NICHOLAS RIDLEY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The second son of Christopher Ridley of Uthank Hall, near Willemoteswick, in that county, he was born in the beginning of the I6th century.
		About this time Ridley, who was now chaplain to the university, began to distinguish himself as an orator and a disputant, and to show leanings to the reformed faith.
		In l547 Ridley was presented by his college to the Cambridgeshire living of Soham, and in September of the same yeai~ he was nominated bishop of Rochester.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RI/RIDLEY_NICHOLAS.htm (619 words)

	Biography Nicholas Ridley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ridley was born in Northumberland, and in 1518 he went to Pembroke College, Cambridge.
		Ridley was instrumental in the production of the first edition of the Book of Common Prayer in 1549 and its revision in 1552, where his theology of the Eucharist was given special place in the order of service for Holy Communion.
		Ridley was fastened to the stake by an iron chain, and a bag of gunpowder was hung around his neck.
	www.tlogical.net /bioridley.htm (498 words)

	Printable Version on Encyclopedia.com
		RIDLEY, NICHOLAS [Ridley, Nicholas] c.1500-1555, English prelate, reformer, and Protestant martyr.
		As bishop of Rochester (1547), Ridley was chosen to strengthen and establish the Reformed teachings at Cambridge.
		Ridley supported Lady Jane Grey's claims to the crown, and in 1553, shortly after Mary Tudor's accession as the Catholic Mary I, he was imprisoned.
	www.encyclopedia.com /printable.aspx?id=1E1:Ridley-N (256 words)

	Nicholas Ridley
		The second son of Christopher Ridley of Uthank Hall, near Willemoteswick, in that county, he was born in the beginning of the 16th century.
		In 1547 Ridley was presented by his college to the Cambridgeshire living of Soham, and in September of the same year he was nominated Bishop of Rochester.
		Having signed the letters patent settling the English crown on Lady Jane Grey, Ridley, in a sermon preached at St. Paul's cross on the 9th of July 1553, affirmed that the princesses Mary and Elizabeth were illegitimate and that the succession of the former would be disastrous to the religious interests of England.
	www.nndb.com /people/540/000094258 (512 words)

	Ridley Hall theological training college, Cambridge: Latest news
		Ridley Hall in Cambridge, which trains ministers for the Church of England, is named after Nicholas Ridley, one of the leading martyrs of the English Reformation.
		Bishop Ridley, who chose to burn at the stake in 1555 rather than renounce his Protestant views, was a Fellow and later Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge.
		Ridley chose to burn rather than turn and he went to the stake on October 16, 1555.
	www.ridley.cam.ac.uk /press.html (383 words)

	Hugh LATIMER, Nicholas RIDLEY and Thomas CRANMER, Bishops and Martyrs
		Among the many notable Lords of Ridley was Joseph, who, in 1485, joined Henry Tudor and his army and, at the head of a band of men from Ridley, fought in the decisive battle of Bosworth.
		As Bishop of Rochester, Ridley was chosen to strengthen and establish the Reformed teachings at Cambridge, and he was a commissioner in the examination that resulted in the deposition of bishops Stephen Gardiner and Edmund Bonner.
		Ridley supported Lady Jane Grey's claims to the crown, and in 1553, shortly after the accession of the Catholic Mary I, he was imprisoned.
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/Latimer,Ridley,Cranmer.htm (3318 words)

	ridley - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Ridley, Nicholas (1500?-1555), English Protestant prelate, reformer, and martyr, born near Willimoteswyke, Northumberland, and educated at Pembroke...
		Scott, Ridley, born in 1939, British motion-picture director, known for creating spectacular visual images.
		Parker, Robert Allan Ridley, born in 1936, United States astronaut, astronomer, and pilot.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /ridley.html (92 words)

	wooQ: The Martyrdom of Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley
		wooQ: The Martyrdom of Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley
		The Martyrdom of Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley
		Hugh Latimer was the Bishop of Worcester and Nicholas Ridley was the Bishop of Rochester.
	wooq.blogspot.com /2005/08/martyrdom-of-hugh-latimer-and-nicholas.html (189 words)

	Ridley Nicholas: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Nicholas Ridley 1990 Gordon Borrie Nicholas Ridley/ Sydney Lipworth...Londons financial district.
		Nicholas Ridley, he went on, has a way of expressing...IT WAS the day of the crisis-Nicholas Ridley would resign within 24 hours...
		Nicholas Ridley, in his early fifties, had been Bishop of London and...but he stood his ground.
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	Ridley, Nicholas
		Ridley, Nicholas, an eminent English prelate, and martyr to the cause of the reformed religion, descended from an ancient family in Northumberland, was born early in the sixteenth century, in Tynedale, at a place called Wilmontswick in the above county.
		In 1548, bishop Ridley appears to have been employed in compiling the common prayer, in conjunction with archbishop Cranmer, and others; and in 1549, he was put into commission, together with Cranmer and several others, to search after all anabaptists, heretics, and contemners of the common prayer.
		In June 1550, bishop Ridley visited his diocese, and directed that the altars should be taken down in the churches, and tables substituted in their room, for the celebration of the Lord’s supper; in order to take away the flase persuasion which the people had, of sacrifices to be offered upon altars.
	www.holoweb.net /~liam/old-books/Dictionaries/Chalmers-Biography/Ridley,Nicholas.html (2225 words)

	John Foxe's Book of Martyrs
		Ridley I thought good to commend to Chronicle and leaue to perpetuall memory: beseching thee gentle reader, with care and study wel to peruse, diligently to consider, and depely to print the same in thy brest, seing him to be a man beautified with such excellēt qualities, so ghostly
		Nicholas Ridley Master of Pembroke hall in Cābridge.
		Ridley tender to his kinred yet not otherwise then truth and rigor required.
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	Ridley Coat of Arms
		The name Ridley was originally derived from the family having lived in the region of Ridley in the counties of Northumberland, Cheshire and Kent.
		Ridley is a topographic surname, which was given to a person who resided near a physical feature such as a hill, stream, church, or type of tree.
		Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Richard Ridley settled in Boston in 1635; along with Anne; Elizabeth Ridley settled in Bermuda in 1635; John Ridley settled in South Carolina in 1716.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.c/qx/ridley-coat-arms.htm (1316 words)

	Ridley, Nicholas on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Truth in adversaries: Ridley Scott's The Duellists and Joseph Conard's "The Duel".(Critica...
		TD Ridley toasts [pounds sterling]46m windfall for takeover.
		For director Ridley Scott, even the `small' films are grand.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/R/Ridley-N1.asp (411 words)

	Saints & Seasons - Saints index
		Llull, Ramon (missionary to the Moors and martyr).
		Nicholas of Myra (bishop, reputed miracle worker, the original Santa Claus).
		Ridley, Nicholas (Church reformer and bishop, martyr under Mary I).
	www.geocities.com /saintsnseasons/saints.html (448 words)

	Our Daily Bread - Jesus' Very Own Peace
		On the eve of the execution of Christian martyr Nicholas Ridley (1500-1555), his brother offered to stay with him in the prison to be of comfort.
		Ridley declined, saying that he planned to sleep as soundly as usual.
		The next morning, Ridley told a fellow Christian who was also being executed, "Be of good heart, brother, for God will either assuage the fury of the flame, or else strengthen us to abide it." Then they knelt and prayed by the stake and, after a brief conversation, were burned to death for their faith.
	www.rbc.org /odb/odb-09-14-04.shtml (277 words)

	Cathedral Church of the Advent - Search
		Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley, two of the heavyweights of the English Reformation, had helped to transform the Church of England from top to bottom according to biblical principles.
		On October 16, Latimer and Ridley were led to the place of execution in a ditch near
		Ridley encouraged his fellow martyr: "Be of good heart, brother, for God will either assuage the fury of the flame or else strengthen us to abide it." Ridley kissed the stake and the two men prayed together, kneeling side by side.
	www.adventbirmingham.org /articles.asp?ID=2636 (287 words)

	Ridley Nicholas - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ridley Nicholas - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		1500-1555), English Protestant prelate, reformer, and martyr, born near Willimoteswyke, Northumberland, and educated at...
		1485-1555), English prelate, reformer, and Protestant martyr, born in Thurcaston, Leicestershire.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Ridley_Nicholas.html (98 words)

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		Nicholas Ridley, Nicholas Ridley (martyr), Disambig, Nicholas Ridley...
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	www.thebestlinks.com /Nicholas_Ridley.html (100 words)

	Biography: Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley, Thomas Cranmer, The Oxford Martyrs (16 October 1555) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Of the nearly three hundred persons burned by her orders, the most famous are the Oxford Martyrs, commemorated today.
		He was Bishop of Worcester (pronounced WOOS-ter) in the time of King Henry, but resigned in protest against the King's refusal to allow the Protestant reforms that Latimer desired.
		But when Mary came to the throne, he was arrested, tried for heresy, and burned together with his friend Nicholas Ridley.
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	RIDLEY, NICHOLAS (c. 1... - Online Information article about RIDLEY, NICHOLAS (c. 1... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		With Cranmer and Latimer he met his end at the stake in Oxford on the 16th of October 1555• Ridley was a voluminous writer, but many of his writings have been lost.
		Works of Nicholas Ridley D.D. were edited for the See also:
		Gloucester Ridley in 1763, and there is a memoir of him in H. Moule's edition of the bishops' See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /RHY_RON/RIDLEY_NICHOLAS_c_1500_1555_.html (877 words)

	Here (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		NICHOLAS RIDLEY, BISHOP OF LINCOLN BORN: 1503 EXECUTED: 1555
		Nicholas Ridley became an adherent of the Protestant cause while a student at Cambridge.
		When Mary came to the throne, he was arrested, tried, and burned with Latimer at Oxford on 16 October 1555.
	www.newble.co.uk /xheroes/ridley.html (119 words)

	John Foxe's Book of Martyrs
		This letter of B. Ridley was writen to M. Bradford soone after his condemnation, when it was thought that he should be had to Lankeshire.
		OH deare brother, seyng the time is now come, wherin it pleaseth the heauenly father, for CHRIST our Sauiour his sake, to call vppon you, and to byd you to to come, happy are you that euer you were borne, thus to be foūd awake at the Lordes callyng.
		The reioysing of B. Ridley at the constancy of Master Rogers.
	hri.shef.ac.uk /foxe/single/book11/11_1570_1898.html (1447 words)

	Hugh Latimer - Wikiquote
		Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
		To his friend Nicholas Ridley, as they were both about to be burned as heretics for their teachings and beliefs outside Balliol College, Oxford (October 16, 1555)
		Variant accounts: Be of good cheer, Master Ridley, and play the man, for we shall this day light such a candle in England as I trust by God's grace shall never be put out.
	en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Hugh_Latimer (262 words)

	Hugh Latimer
		He was kept in close confinement until the accession of Edward VI (1547), when he resumed preaching against the abuses of church and clergy in eloquent and vivid sermons.
		was burned at the stake as a martyr.
		Nicholas Ridley - Ridley, Nicholas, c.1500–1555, English prelate, reformer, and Protestant martyr.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0828972.html (187 words)

	CliffsNotes::Fahrenheit 451:Book Summary and Study Guide
		When Montag is called to an unidentified woman’s house “in the ancient part of the city,” he is amazed to find that the woman will not abandon her home or her books.
		The woman is clearly a martyr, and her martyrdom profoundly affects Montag.
		Latimer’s words to Ridley are the ones that the unidentified woman alludes to before she is set aflame.
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		I can not burn." His lower members were first consumed, and the end came when the fire reached a bag of gunpowder which Ridley's brotherin-law had tied at his neck.
		An avenue in the yard of Pembroke Hall is still known as Ridley's Walk.
		Consult further: G. Ridley, Life of Dr. Nicholas Ridley, Sometime Bishop of London, London, 1763; the memoir in the volume on Ridley in L. Richmond's Fathers of the English Church, 8 vols., London, 1807-12; G. Ridlon, Hilt.
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	Nicholas Ridley (martyr): Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ridley was well versed on Scripture, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
		He was martyred for his teachings and his support of Lady Jane Grey (Queen of England for nine days in 1553; she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (1537-1554))
		Nicholas Ridley was also the name of a prominent British MP in the 1980s (The decade from 1980 to 1989)
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/nicholas_ridley_martyr (1107 words)

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