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Darkmind said:
She was a very brave woman and did not deserve what happened to her. As one quote said "She rode to heaven on a chariot of fire"

I honestly think Henry the VIII wanted a show of power as he was getting old (And died within a year of this). S0 he let this happen to her. Also it appeased the Catholic church a bit as well. So it was not that she had done anything evil it was that she was just a tool for our people to use. Very sad.
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And I have after so long time emphaty with the poor women! She is in the Memory of world!
 
MICHELE PATRI said:
Anne Askew

Anne Askew was an English writer, poet, and Protestant martyr who was condemned as a heretic in England in the reign of King Henry VIII. She is the only woman on record known to have been both tortured in the Tower of London and burnt at the stake. She is also one of the earliest-known female poets to compose in the English language and the first Englishwoman to demand a divorce (especially as an innocent party on scriptural grounds).[2]

Anne Askew was born in 1521 in Lincolnshire, England. William Askew, a wealthy landowner, was her father. William was a gentleman in the court of King Henry VIII, as well as a juror in the trial of Anne Boleyn's co-accused. Her mother was Elizabeth Wrotessley, of Reading, Berkshire. Askew was the fourth of their five children, which included her brothers Francis and Edward, and sisters Martha and Jane. She also had two stepbrothers, Christopher and Thomas, by her father's second wife Elizabeth Hutton. She was also related to Robert who led the Pilgrimage of Grace.

William Askew had arranged that his eldest daughter, Martha, be married to Thomas Kyme. When Anne was 15 years old, Martha died. Her father decided Anne would take Martha's place in the marriage to Thomas to save money.

Askew was a devout Protestant. She studied the Bible and memorized verses. She was true to her belief for the entirety of her life. Her husband was a Catholic, which resulted in a brutal marriage. Askew had two children with Kyme before he threw her out for being Protestant, although it is unclear if these children survived past infancy, as they have not been mentioned by any of Askew's contemporaries but Bale.[5] It is alleged that Askew was seeking to divorce Kyme, so this did not upset her.[5]

Upon being thrown out, Askew moved to London. Here she met other Protestants and studied the Bible. Askew stuck to her maiden name, rather than her husband's name. While in London, she became a "gospeller" or a preacher.

In March 1545, Kyme had Askew arrested. She was brought back to Lincolnshire, where he demanded that she stay. The order was short lived; she escaped and returned to London to continue preaching. In 1546 she was arrested again, but released. In May 1546 she was arrested again, and tortured in the Tower of London. (She is the only woman recorded to have been tortured there.) She was ordered to name like-minded women, but refused. The torturers, Lord Chancellor Thomas Wriothesley and Sir Richard Rich, used the rack, which stretches the victim by the limbs eventually causing dislocation of wrists, ankles, elbows, knees, shoulders and hips. Askew refused to renounce her beliefs. On 18 June 1546, she was convicted of heresy, and was condemned to be burned at the stake.

On 16 July 1546 Askew was martyred in Smithfield, London. Due to the torture she had endured, she had to be carried to the stake on a chair. She burned to death, along with three other Protestants, John Lassells, Nicholas Belenian also known as John Hemsley ('a priest') and John Adams aka John Hadlam ('a tailor').

In the last year of Henry VIII's reign, Askew was caught up in a court struggle between religious traditionalists and reformers. Stephen Gardiner was telling the king that diplomacy – the prospect of an alliance with the Roman Catholic Emperor Charles V — required a halt to religious reform. The traditionalist party pursued tactics tried out three years previously, with the arrests of minor evangelicals in the hope that they would implicate those who were more highly placed. In this case measures were taken that were "legally bizarre and clearly desperate". The people rounded up were in many cases strongly linked to Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, who spent most of the period absent from court in Kent: Askew's brother Edward was one of his servants, and Nicholas Shaxton who was brought in to put pressure on Askew to recant was acting as a curate for Cranmer at Hadleigh. Others in Cranmer's circle who were arrested were Rowland Taylor and Richard Turner.

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Michele, make you a own manip with Anne, for the next book!? Please!
 
Darkmind said:
She was a very brave woman and did not deserve what happened to her. As one quote said "She rode to heaven on a chariot of fire"

I honestly think Henry the VIII wanted a show of power as he was getting old (And died within a year of this). S0 he let this happen to her. Also it appeased the Catholic church a bit as well. So it was not that she had done anything evil it was that she was just a tool for our people to use. Very sad.
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As he grew older, Henry began to shift back toward Catholicism. He had never really been enthusiastic about the Reformation, seeing it mostly as a political tool. In addition, he was suffering from several illnesses including, most likely, brain injury caused by several concussions in his younger days.
Henry's court was torn between reformers and "traditionalist" who favored a reconciliation with Rome if not a complete return to Catholicism. The traditionalist held most of the power at the time. But, Henry's sixth wife, Catherine Parr, was believed to be strongly Protestant. The traditionalists wanted her removed. To this end, they had Anne tortured to force her to name, if not the Queen, then other ladies of the court known to be close both to the Queen and Anne, especially Catherine's sister, as sharing Anne's beliefs. To her credit, Anne refused to implicate anyone else.
 
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The film is "Desert Warrior" (1957 - the year I was born!)
Here's a clip of that scene. Sorry for the poor quality of the print.
I have know idea who the girl is, who the guy with the beard is or why she's being tortured. The dialogue is in Spanish, so maybe TC can make it out.
 
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