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"There he misseth, and speaketh without the book."

🕯 #AnneAskew, English writer, poet, and Protestant martyr, was condemned as a heretic in the reign of Henry VIII of England. #OTD 16 July 1546 she became the only woman to be both tortured in the Tower and burnt at the stake.

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18th June 1546
Anne Askew appeared at London's Guildhall, where she was arraigned for heresy

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