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Just before the Second World War, a number of streets in the area were named after the martyrs (all except Archer, Bond and
Hawkins). In addition, two streets were named after the movement and bore witness to their fate – Lollard Croft and Martyrs Close. In addition, John Grace Street bears the name
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Master Archer (a shoemaker), Thomas Bond (a shoemaker), Master
Hawkins (a shoemaker or skinner), Robert Hockett, or Hatchet, or Hatchets (a shoemaker or leather-dresser), Thomas Lansdail or Lansdale (a hosier) and Master Wrigsham (a glover) were all burned on 4 April 1520. The monument gives a date
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A widow, Mistress Smith, was due to be discharged when a document was discovered in her sleeve, containing (in
English) the Lord's Prayer, Ten Commandments and Apostles' Creed. For this, she was immediately condemned and burnt with the others. The memorial names her 'Mistress Lansdail (or Smith)'.
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The site of the executions in the manorial park at
Cheylesmore, just south of the city wall at the time, was known into the nineteenth century. But it was not until the early part of the twentieth century that public pressure for a monument led to a mayoral committee being formed in 1908, and the
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between 1512 and 1522 (seven men and two women) and in 1555 (three men). Eleven of them are commemorated by a six-metre-high (20 ft) monument, erected in 1910 in a public garden in the city, between Little Park Street and Mile Lane; and by a
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is included among their number. Lollards were known to be active in the city as early as 1414, and sources of the time record
Lollardy-related public order incidents in 1424 and 1431. In 1432, the wife of a
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were executed not for
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Robert
Silkeby (or Silkby or Silkesby) was burnt on 13 January 1522, having previously escaped after being apprehended with those burned in 1520. He appears to have acted as
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the previous year, but had since returned to their sincerely held
Lollard views. Records suggest that the possession of Protestant literature, and of the
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erection of the monument in 1910. Carved in
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Joan
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In 1953, the mosaic was designed by Hugh Hosking, and created by Geneva artist Rene Antoinette. A street in the city's
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was executed at Coventry for Lollardy, with further ecclesiastical court trials recorded for 1445 and 1486.
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