On This Day (18 April) in 1587, clergyman, historian, theologian and martyrologist John Foxe died at his London home on Grub Street, in the parish of St Giles-without-Cripplegate.

On This Day (06 Nov) in 1543, Lettice Knollys was born at Greys Court, Rotherfield Greys, Oxon.

On This Day (06 Oct) 1536, the execution of English Reformist Scholar and Translator William Tyndale at Vilvoorde, is commemorated.

Anne Askew's name has long been associated with martyrdom in Henry VIII's Protestant England.

Anne Askew was a 25yo writer, poet and preacher, originally from Lincolnshire, whose resolute Reformist religious views...

In Mar 1550, a poem was composed, dedicated to the life and achievements of the recently deceased Marguerite of Navarre -The Hecatodistichon