So there are hangings. A number of the rebel leaders are dispatched. The Duke of Suffolk is executed. / Jane Grey, the 9 day's queen is now executed as well. There is a fear at one state that Princess Elizabeth herself may be facing execution. / it is a / being reported by the ambassadors at the time. And a number of the rebels from Kent are sent back to their shires, and hanged in their own home parishes in order to discourage future rebellion.
Now she was queen. Mary would return her country to the Catholic fold by all means necessary. Protestant England was about to experience the revenge of Mary Tudor. After years of confusion, paranoia and turmoil, the Catholic Queen Mary Tudor was in a position to revenge her protestant tormentors. In her eyes, the crimes against her had been committed in the name of the Church of England. She would purge the nation of its satanic presence.
The first thing that Mary has to do, in an association with her / / and the principal advisers is to recreate the medieval laws that mean you can be burned at a stake for heresy.
Mary wouldn't have defined heresy as the church would have defined it. And that doesn't just mean being wrong. It means persisting in being wrong. And if they go on saying what we've said before, that the Mass is a bless for me; that the Pope is antichrist, then you have to burn them.
The terrific / of burning at a stake proved a useful tool for Mary and her government.
They want other people to watch and think heresy is an illness within the body politic and it needs to be parched. It needs to be burnt out and destroyed.
Mary was determined that the burnings were carried out to produce maximum effect.
Touching punishment of heretics, me think it ought to be done without rashness. And it may be evident to all this realm how I minister true justice.
Mary's land to cleanse England of protestant curse, turned into a frenzy of killing. Hundreds were burned to death, first the Bishops, then protestant preachers and even their families. Burnings took place in town squares all over the country. Those classless heretics were killed without mercy.
Horrible case in the Channel Islands where a pregnant woman was put on the fire, and her baby was born in the fire and it was thrown back.