Thomas Bilney

Thomas Bilney (– 19 August 1531) was an English priest. Quotes about Thomas Bilney Had Bilney's over-scrupulous conscience allowed him to stay quietly at Cambridge a year or two more, he would have found all and more than he contended for accepted by the very men who hounded him on to death. The execution of a man so gentle and harmless as Bilney was peculiarly disgraceful to the government, even if, as most people then admitted, it was right to burn heretics and sacramentaries. Thomas Frederick Tout, Bilney, Thomas Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900 The significance of Bilney’s execution lies in the fact that on essential points he was an orthodox Roman Catholic. Albert Frederick Pollard, Bilney, Thomas 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica External links Category:Executed people Category:1531 deaths