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5th April 1531
Richard Roose, a cook in the household of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester was boiled to death at Smithfield for the crime of poisoning.

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22nd December 1534
From his prison, John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, wrote to Thomas Cromwell beseeching him to provide him with “a shirt & sheet, some food, some books & a priest to hear his confession.”

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22nd June 1535
John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, was executed on Tower Hill

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20th May 1535
The incarcerated John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, was made a Cardinal by Pope Paul III. This appointment did not make any difference to his treatment as he was executed on 22nd June 1535.

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#OTD
7th May 1535
Thomas Cromwell visited John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester in the Tower of London and read out the Act of Supremacy

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Bust of Bishop John Fisher
Pietro Torrigiano
1510–1515

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#OTD
22nd December 1534
From his incarceration, John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, wrote to Thomas Cromwell beseeching him to provide him with a shirt and sheet, some food, some books and a priest to hear his confession.
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