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To: boatbums; vladimir998
"Yes, I bothered to read the link."

Its a shame you limited your research to the internet. If you had actually cracked a book you might learn that everything you know about Anne Askew is from what she apparently wrote posthumusly.

I would recommend you get a copy of Translating Askew: The Textual Remains of a Sixteenth-Century Heretic and Saint by THERESA D. KEMP. In it she quotes:

"On 24 May 1546, Henry VIII's Privy Council sent two yeomen of the Chamber with "letters to oone [Thomas] Kyme and his wief for their apparance within x [i.e., ten] dayes after receipt." Had the matter been settled simply when they appeared, we might have known little more about the identity of the nameless wife of Thomas Kyme. But this "wief" was already well known to the authorities -- it was at least her third encounter with the law, including a two-week long imprisonment during which time she was interrogated about her religious beliefs. Because of her continuing confrontations with conservative ecclesiastic and state authorities connected with the late Henrician court, a particular and contradictory aspect of her identity survives in the various documents relating to her trials and execution by fire on 16 July 1546 at the age of twenty-five."

2,855 posted on 09/11/2011 3:03:25 PM PDT by Natural Law (For God so loved the world He did not send a book.)
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To: Natural Law

If you had actually cracked a book .... (Like)

Henry VIII frightens me. The man was ruthless and began a new religion


2,862 posted on 09/11/2011 4:06:39 PM PDT by stonehouse01
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