"Had Bilney's over-scrupulous conscience allowed him to stay quietly at Cambridge a year or two more, he would have found all and more than he contended for accepted by the very men who hounded him on to death. The execution of a man so gentle and harmless as Bilney was peculiarly disgraceful to the government, even if, as most people then admitted, it was right to burn heretics and sacramentaries."
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Thomas Frederick Tout, Bilney, Thomas Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
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Thomas Bilney
Thomas Bilney (– 19 August 1531) was an English priest.
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