Appendix XI: 'They which stood for the true religion' October 1553
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558, ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982
Available from Boydell and Brewer
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The following 60 names are marked on the Crown Office list for the Parliament of October 1553: ‘They which stood for the true religion are signed thus†’.
| Nicholas Adams alias Bodrugan | William Hunston |
| William Badger | Sir Henry Hussey |
| Robert Beverley | Thomas Jekyn |
| Richard Blackwell | Edward Leighton |
| John Blundell | John Leweston |
| Sir Edward Bray | Simon Linch |
| (Sir) Edmund Brydges | John Lyttelton |
| Sir Peter Carew | Thomas Markham |
| Matthew Colthurst | Thomas Marrow |
| Humphrey Coningsby | John Marshe |
| Sir Thomas Cornwallis | (Sir) Walter Mildmay |
| Henry Creed | William More II |
| (Sir) Thomas Dyer | John Nethermill |
| Robert Eyre I | Henry Peckham |
| Thomas Farnham | (Sir) John Perrot |
| Robert Farrar | Owen Reynolds |
| William Fitzwilliam | George Rithe |
| Sir Francis Fleming | Sir Edward Rogers |
| Richard Fulmerston | (Sir) Thomas Russell |
| Thomas Gawdy I | Robert Saunders |
| Thomas Gawdy II | Ralph Skinner |
| John Gayer | William Smethwick |
| John Godwin I | Henry Stafford |
| Francis Goldsmith | Sir Giles Strangways II |
| John Gosnold | Clement Throckmorton |
| William Hawkins | John Throckmorton I1 |
| George Heneage | (Sir) Nicholas Throckmorton |
| Thomas Heneage | Charles Vaughan |
| (Sir) John Hercy | John Walpole |
| Sir Ralph Hopton | Sir Edward Warner |
Initially the following were also noted as standing ‘for the true religion’ but the marks were later struck through.
Edward Chamberlain II
Sir John Horsey (Sir)
Thomas Smith I
Ref Volumes: 1509-1558
Author: S. T. Bindoff
End Notes
- 1. Also marked ‘With the last Act and against the first’.
