Dr. Joanne Paul
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 14 Sep
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the Carthusians because there's sort of two executions that take place, uh I think about five or six weeks apart.
And the the prior of the charter house, the head of of the Carthusians, his arm is actually nailed to the top of the door of the charter house as a warning.
To all of those within.
And yet they persist in their refusal to take the oath and are essentially tortured.
They're made to stand through their entire imprisonment and then executed in the worst way that the tutors are able to come up with hanging, drawing, and quartering.
And so this happens very shortly before the trial first of John Fisher, who is executed for his refusal.
refusal to take the oath, his perceived malicious denial.
And then actually a writ goes out from the king, declaring Fisher to be a traitor, but also Thomas More, who hasn't even been tried yet.
Then his trial takes place, that's obviously a foregone conclusion, and he's executed.
of terror.
It is one of terror.
We didn't even mention, I think, that when commissioners go out into London to swear people to the oath, it's the same day that another opponent of the king and the break with Rome and the divorce, Elizabeth Barton, the nun of Kent, is executed and her followers
She's hanged, which is entirely unusual for a woman.
It's considered indecent.
And then their heads are carted back through London and put up on spikes on the on London Bridge the same day that everyone is being lined up to take the oath.
That if that is a reign of terror.
absolutely is.
What is the reaction by Henry?
Again, this is just gonna get very sad.
Uh he appears to celebrate.
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