"Christopher Dare...asked me, wherefore I said, I had rather to read five lines in the Bible, than to hear five Masses in the Temple: I confessed that I said no less: not for the dispraise of either the Epistle or the Gospel, but because the one did greatly edifie me, and the other nothing at all."
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In John Foxe's Actes and Monuments (1583) vol. 2, pp. 1234f
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Anne Askew
Anne Askew (sometimes spelled Ayscough or Ascue, married name Kyme; 1521 – 16 July 1546) was an English writer, poet, and Protestant preacher who was condemned as a heretic during the reign of Henry VIII of England. She and Margaret Cheyne are the only women on record known to have been both tortured in the Tower of London and burnt at the stake.
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