Mary I treatment of heretics

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Treatment of heretics under Mary I
- Her policy of burning Protestant heretics earned her the nickname 'Bloody Mary'
- Fate of Mary's victims recorded in John Foxe's 'Acts and Monuments'/ Book of Martyrs
- 289 Protestants suffered, included famous people such as Archbishop Cranmer, Bishops Hooper and Ridley
- 60 burnings in London, other locations were in south-east
- One level, Crown's strategy seemed to misfire
  - Deaths of popular preachers John Rogers and Rowland Taylor elicited widespread public sympathy
  - Extension of the range of victims to include persons of humble status seems to have strengthened the imapct of their martyrdom
- Council attempted to ban the young, apprentices and servants from attending burning
Extension of the range of victims to include persons of humble status seems to have strengthened the imapct of their martyrdom

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