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33° YORK.
opinions, — Joan Bocher, and a Dutchman called
Peter van Paris. Joan Bocher's execution was
pressed on Edward by Cranmer, who quoted from the
law of Moses that blasphemers should be stoned,
and that Joan had rushed with violence against the
Apostles' Creed, and deserved the punishment of a
blasphemer.
It has indeed been alleged in extenuation
that these people were Anabaptists, who certainly
held opinions subversive of civil government, but
there can scarcely be any doubt that they really
suffered on account of holding erroneous theological
views. If Mary's victims had been counted by units
only, her persecution would have left little or no impression,
probably, on the public mind, but the
numbers were so appalling that the impression
remains even yet ineffaceable.
The line taken by Archbishop Holgate, as indicated
above, was certain to place him in an obnoxious attitude,
as regarded the new sovereign. He was, moreover,
a married ecclesiastic, and one of the first acts
of Mary's reign was to deprive the married clergy of
their preferments.
Holgate was accordingly deprived
of his archbishopric, and in addition to that was
committed to the Tower, chiefly because of his
opposition to the queen's title to the Crown. He
remained a prisoner for a year and a half, when he
was released, it is said, on the intercession of Philip.
He retired to Hemsworth, in Yorkshire, where he is
supposed to have been born, and where he probably
died in the year 1556, v.hich is the date of the probate
of his will. But no sepulchral memorial exists
to mark the place where his body lies, nor is there