Anne Askew (née Anne Ayscough, married name Anne Kyme) (1520[1] – 16 July 1546) was an English poet and Protestant who was condemned as a heretic. She is the only woman on record to have been tortured in the Tower of London before being burnt at the stake.
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."
You wrote:
“Yes, I bothered to read the link. It appears you did not, though. Are you unfamiliar with the “Traditionlists” that were attempting to bring back the Catholic religion while Henry was on his last legs?”
There was no inquisition in England. Thus, no matter who you can find who was tortured or executed in the history of English isle, it was never connected with the inquisition. What part of that do you not understand?
“Are you unaware that after his death and that of his young son, Edward, that they did indeed get their wish with the Catholic Queen Mary Tudor?”
They never got an inquisition. What part of that do you not understand?
“Anne Askew (née Anne Ayscough, married name Anne Kyme) (1520[1] – 16 July 1546) was an English poet and Protestant who was condemned as a heretic. She is the only woman on record to have been tortured in the Tower of London before being burnt at the stake.”
Executed by a Protestant king. She was tortured by Richard Rich and Thomas Wriothesley. Rich was the man who perjured himself to convict St. Thomas More. Catholic traditionalist? Absolutely NOT. Wriothesley actually was said to have operated the rack when Askew was tortured. He had become rich when he received the wealth of dissolved monasteries. And you’re now trying to claim it was Catholic Traditionalists who were at fault? You might want to read Peter Marshall’s “Is the Pope Catholic? Henry VIII and the Semantics of Schism”, in Catholics and the ‘protestant nation’: religious politics and identity in early modern England.
The simple fact is that Henry VIII was less Protestant than Askew. Both were not Catholic, however and neither was ever tried by an inquisition nor was either ever tortured in one. Richard Rich by the way simply went wherever he could make money. He served Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I and participated in persecuting people for religious reasons under all of those monarchs. He was a Talleyrand. What he wasn’t was a loyal Catholic.
Protestant anti-Catholic fails again. Same old, same old.