Anne Askew

thumb|I had rather read five lines in the Bible, than hear five Masses in the Temple. 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. Quotes Like as the armèd knyght  Appoynted to the fielde,With thys world wyll I fyght,  And fayth shall be my shielde. "The Balade whych Anne Askewe made and sange whan she was in Newgate", st. 1. The lattre examinacyon of Anne Askewe, latelye martyred in Smythfelde, by the wycked Synagoge of Antichrist, with the Elucydacyon of Johan Bale (1547) p. 63 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. In John Foxe's Actes and Monuments (1583) vol. 2, pp. 1234f External links Category:1521 births Category:1546 deaths Category:Poets Category:Poets from England Category:Women authors Category:Women authors from England Category:Executed people Category:Martyrs Category:People from Lincolnshire