Their Faith Was Their Crime:
The Story of the Catholic Martyrs of England, 1535 to 1681
The Story of the Catholic Martyrs of England, 1535 to 1681
Table of Contents:
Introduction (The three groups of martyrs: Supremacy, Recusancy, and Popish Plot)
Part One: The Supremacy Martyrs
I. First Martyrs under Henry VIII: The Carthusians, Observant Franciscans, and the Nun of Kent
II. Bright Lights of Christian Humanism: Bishop John Fisher and Sir Thomas More
III. Martyrs of the Pilgrimage of Grace and the Dissolution of the Monasteries
Part Two: The Recusancy Martyrs
IV. Links in a Chain: John Storey, Edmund Campion, Philip Howard, Robert Southwell, and Henry Walpole
V. Three Brave Women: Margaret Clitherow, Anne Line, and Margaret Ward
VI. Northern Rebellion and Armada Victims: Reaction and Retribution
VII. The Geography of the Catholic Underground: Prisons in England; Te Deum on the Continent
VIII. Remember, Remember the Fifth of November: Aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot
IX. Catholic Martyrs in Ireland and Scotland
Part Three: The Popish Plot Martyrs
X. Test Acts, the Popish Plot, and the Glorious Revolution
Conclusion: Catholics Emerge from Centuries of Persecution and Prosecution
Notes/Works Cited
Suggestions for Further Reading
Please let me know what you think about interest in such a book and what you'd like to see included in it. I'm not sure about including the Irish and Scots martyr(s)--St. John Ogilvie is the only one from Scotland and the few Irish martyrs beatified represent so many more--what do you think? Send me an email: englishreform(at)cox(dot)net
Thank you.
