Anne Askew

Anne Askew (1521-1546), also Anne Ayscough or Ascue), married name Anne Kyme, was an English lady of good birth. She was a writer, poet, and Protestant preacher. She became a victim of persecution in the time of Henry VIII for denying transubstantiation, tortured on the rack and burnt at the stake in 1546.

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