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  TimeRef - History Timelines - Medieval People Starting With S
William Sawtrey was a follower of John Wycliffe and part of the Lollard movement.
William was accused of heresy and sentenced to death.
Sir William fought at Agincourt beside King Henry V and was knighted by Henry VI and known as the 'blue knight of Gwent'.
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  William Sawtrey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Sawtrey (died March 1401) was an English priest and follower of John Wycliffe.
Sawtrey was born in Bishop's Lynn, Norfolk, and was rector of St Margaret's in the town.
On 1401-02-26, Sawtrey was condemned as a relapsed heretic, the punishment was death by burning.
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 William Sawtrey
William Sawtrey was the parish priest of St Scithe the Virgin in London.
Sawtrey was given time to answer and returned to the convocation with his written response.
So William Sawtrey became the first of the Lollards to be executed by burning on the direct command of the king.
www.thereformation.info /sawtrey.htm   (500 words)

  
 February 26: William Sawtrey condemned to die
In 1399, the first time that William Sawtrey was arrested on charges of heresy, he went to prison until he broke down and gave up his beliefs.
William was one of many laymen and priests who accepted the teachings of John Wycliffe.
William also held that it was a better use of time to preach to the lost than to recite certain prayers.
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 Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafg78 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
William I the Lion of SCOTLAND King [Parents] was born 1143.
William was baptized in Reigned 10 Dec 1165-1214.
Margaret of HUNTINGDON [Parents] died 1201 and was buried in Sawtrey Abbey, Hunts..
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 Lollards
Its passing was immediately followed by the burning of the first victim, William Sawtrey, a London priest.
William Wych, a priest, was indeed executed, in 1440, but he was an old man and belonged to the first generation of Lollards.
The increase in the number of citations for heresy under Henry VII was probably due more to the renewed activity of the bishops in a time of peace than to a revival of Lollardy.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/l/lollards.html   (2923 words)

  
 Jeffrey Thomas : Search results for History : Fine & Rare Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
William Andrews was an indefatigable antiquarian and compiler who produced numerous miscellaneous works which he had printed at his Hull Press and issued by his own publishing company.
The lithographs were prepared by William E. Hitchcock and Ralph Trembly; most of them were printed and colored at the establishment of J. Bowen in Philadelphia, and a few by the firm of Nagel & Weingaertner of New York.
W ith the bookplate of the soldier and Jacobite William North (1678-1734), sixth Baron North and Baron Gray of Rolleston.
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William Sawtrey, formerly Rector of St. Margaret’s in Lynn, and now of St. Osyth in London—“a good man and faithful priest,” says Fox—was apprehended, and an indictment preferred against him.
Sawtrey being the first Protestant to be put to death in England, the ceremony of his degradation was gone about with great formality.
William Thorpe, in the words of the chronicler, “was a valiant warrior under the triumphant banner of Christ.” His examination before Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury, shows us the evangelical creed as it was professed by the English Christians of the fifteenth century.
www.godrules.net /library/wylie/102wylie_a8.htm   (8180 words)

  
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William Wallace, and Andrew De Moray leaders of the Scottish revolt in the South and North join forces and defeat the English army lead by Surrey at Stirling.
William Wallace was betrayed and captured by the English.
William of Warenne was rewarded with huge amounts of land and helped his Lord, William the Conqueror put down revolts.
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 The Manor of Canons or Tetworth(page44.html in mw1)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
In 1538 Richard Williams, alias Cromwell, held other lands on lease in Canons, part of the Sawtery possessions, when he received licence to alienate his manors and lands in Tetworth and Everton and elsewhere to John Burgoyne of Sutton and his son and heir, Thomas Cromwell.
In the Quarter Sessions there is an account of a fight in the fields of Woodbury between the headstrong William Machell and others of his father's party and some of Deane's supporters involving the use of pikestaffs and poles.
Richard, a yeoman of Tetworth, died in 1631 in Huntingdon seised of messuages in Tetworth held of Onslow Winch as of his manor of Everton late Tanfields, of closes in Tetworth held of the manor of Weston and of a cottage etc. in Tetworth.
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 Ambassador-Emerald - Product: The Spreading Flame (Part 2)
From the first efforts of John Wycliffe to the ultimate success of William Tyndale whose New Testament transformed England and whose diligent work in the face of opposition, persecution and ultimate martyrdom laid the foundation for the Bible we have today.
Tyndale’s translation came into the hands of men like Thomas Bilney, Hugh Latimer, William Ridley and Thomas Cranmer, all prominent men in the development of the Reformation in England and all of whom preferred to burn rather than bow to error.
On this video we meet the first English martyrs William Sawtrey and John Badby and we witness the terrible burnings in London, at Smithfield.
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 John Purvey
None the less he continued to write various works, including commentaries, sermons and treatises condemning the corruption of the Catholic Church.
By 1401 he was brought before convocation and, unable to face death by burning, like that of William Sawtrey, he submitted to the authorities and returned to orthodoxy, confessing and revoking his heresies.
Afterwards Purvey was left alone and by the end of 1401 he was inducted to the vicarage of West Hythe in Kent.
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 WikiMiki.net - 1401   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Wycliffe's contest with John Owtred and William Wynham (or Wyrinham) were formerly unknown, as were the earlier ones with his opponent William Wadeford.
Wycliffe blamed the Benedictine professor of theology at Oxford, William Wynham of St Albans (where the anti-Wycliffite trend was considerable) for making public controversies which had hitherto been confined to the academic arena.
Wycliffe was summoned before William Courtenay, Bishop of London, on Feb. 19, 1377, in order "to explain the wonderful things which had streamed forth from his mouth".
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 WILLIAM SAWTREY (d. 14o1) - Online Information article about WILLIAM SAWTREY (d. 14o1)
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 Today in History - February 19
William Sawtrey, an English priest who followed the teachings of John Wycliffe, was burned for heresy, becoming the first "Lollard" (critic of the church) martyr in England.
He became president of the Brandenburg Missionary Conference in 1908 and was a well-known and prolific writer on missions.
William Adam, Baptist and Unitarian missionary to India, died in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England (b.
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A failure to understand the experience of his own conversion, which re-orientated his life, was the result of a failure to appreciate an initiative so clearly overdue in Medieval ecclesiology.
William Sawtrey, an early English priest, attempted to develop a social conscience among the clergy of his day, emphasising a need for more pastoral awareness, with less concentration on sacerdotal matters.
William Booth faced fierce opposition, even serious rioting, as he sought to evangelise, through social welfare and preaching, the masses of the submerged one tenth of Victorian society and, with subsequent initiatives, and worldwide expansion The Salvation Army gained such respect unimagined at its inception.
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 The History of Protestantism by J. A. Wylie
By these and sundry other ceremonies, too tedious to recite, William Sawtrey was made as truly a layman as before the oil and scissors of the Church had touched him.
Unrobed, disqualified for the mystic ministry, and debarred the sacrificial shrines of Rome, he was now to ascend the steps of an altar, whereon he was to lay costlier sacrifice than any to be seen in the Roman temples.
"William, kneel down," said another, "and pray my Lord's Grace, and leave all thy fancies, and become a child of holy Church." The archbishop, striking the table fiercely with his hand, also demanded his instant submission.
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 The Age of Chivalry - 15th Century AD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
William Sawtrey is burned in England under new laws against heresy.
Sir William Douglas murdered by James II of Scotland.
William Caxton sets up his printing press at Westminster, England.
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William Sawtrey, formerly Rector of St. Margaret's in Lynn, and now of St. Osyth in London-"a good man and faithful priest," says Fox-was apprehended, and an indictment preferred against him.
As Sawtrey was the first Protestant to be put to death in England, the ceremony of his degradation was gone about with great formality.
Holinshed says the prince "promised him not only life, but also three pence a day so long as he lived, to be paid out of the king's coffers." Cobbett, in his Parliamentary History, tells us that the wages of a thresher were at that time twopence per day.
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William Murray, 1st Earl Of, Earl of Mansfield, Baron of Mansfield, Lord Mansfield Mansfield
William Pitt Amherst, Lst Earl, Viscount Holmesdale, Baron Amherst of Montreal Amherst
William Pulteney, 1st Earl Of, Viscount Pulteney of Wrington, Baron of Hedon Bath
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 §4. The Lollards. XVIII. Political and Religious Verse to the Close of the Fifteenth Century—Final Words. ...
The unquiet reign of Henry IV saw the miserable game of heresy-hunting at work under the statute De Heretico Comburendo, and political revolt after revolt in the north.
Four years after the burning of William Sawtrey the Lollard, at Smithfield, a lay court condemned the saintly archbishop Richard le Scrope of York to death for high treason and provided that the sentence should be carried out as ignominiously as might be.
The virtues of the archbishop are celebrated in Latin and in English verses; and the political and religious “crimes” of the Lollards are not forgotten by other literary clerks.
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 New? Movement - October 1993
It is interesting to note that William Sawtrey, the rector of St. Margarets’s in Lynn and the first Lollard martyr, was martyred on the charge that he would not worship the cross.
Returning our attention to fourteenth century England, we read of William Thorpe, a Lollard Protestant, whose chief sins in the eyes of the establishment of his day were his refusal to believe in the transubstantiation of the communion bread and his refusal to worship images such as the cross.
So I class William with the lengthy list of martyrs and request your attention to his recorded statement as to what constitutes God’s church.
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 The Lollards
Notably Henry IV directly ordered the burning of William Sawtrey and subsequently enshrined in statute law - the "Ex Officio" statute, which directed that heretics were to be burned at the stake by the civil authority.
These included " Sherpherd`s Calendar", "A Pricke of Conscience"; "The King of Beeme"; The Examination of William Thorpe; Peres the Ploughman`s Creed; The Ploughman`s Tale (not to be confused with Langland`s poem ` the Vision of William concerning Piers the Ploughman).
The Ploughman`s Creed was produced anonymously in 1394 and was a paraphrase of the Apostle`s Creed with an addition of Wycliffe`s doctrine of the sacrament.
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 WikiMiki.net - 1918   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
- March 23 - In London at the Wood Green Empire, Chung Ling Soo (William E Robinson, US-born magician) dies during his trick where he was supposed to "catch" two separate bullets – one of them perforates his lung.
After the death of William Henry Harrison, however, Vice President John Tyler asserted that he had become the President, not merely Acting President, and this precedent was followed in all subsequent cases.
- William McKinley in 1901 by Leon Czolgosz
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 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: William Sawtrey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
This is an extract from The Middle East Open Encyclopedia, made possible through the Wikimedia Foundation.
Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, William Sawtrey; all previous versions may be viewed here.
They link directly to authoring tools for you to start writing a particular article.
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 WikiMiki.net - 1437   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
From 1428, Henry's tutor was the Earl of Warwick, whose father had been instrumental in the opposition to Richard II's reign.
Henry was also influenced by Henry Beaufort, and later William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk.
In the 1590s, William Shakespeare wrote a trilogy of plays about the life of Henry VI: Henry VI, part 1, Henry VI, part 2, and Henry VI, part 3.
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 English Dissenters: Lollards
Men such as: John Badby, William Taylor, William Swinderby, and John Aston were recorded for future generations.
William Thrope, and Anne Askewe, and The image of both churches
Somerset, F. E., "Vernacular Argumentation in The Testomony of William Thorpe",
www.exlibris.org /nonconform/engdis/lollards.html   (3466 words)

  
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There is also interest within Canada and the Turks and Caicos Islands, an overseas UK territory in the Caribbean, for the latter to enter into Confederation.
On May 3, 1952 U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Joseph O. Fletcher and Lieutenant William P. Benedict landed a plane at the geographic North Pole.
the dip is 90°, was proposed in 1600 by Sir William Gilbert, a courtier of Queen Elizabeth I, and is still used.
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