Hugh Latimer
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Oct 11, 2026
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Mr. Samuel suffered August 31, 1555.
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Bishop Ridley and Bishop Latimer These reverend prelates suffered October 17, 1555, at Oxford, on the same day Wolseley and Pigott perished at Ely.
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Pillars of the church and accomplished ornaments of human nature, they were the admiration of the realm, amiably conspicuous in their lives and glorious in their deaths.
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Dr. Ridley was born in Northumberland, was first taught grammar at Newcastle, and afterward removed to Cambridge, where his aptitude in education raised him gradually until he came to be the head of Pembroke College, where he received the title of Doctor of Divinity.
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Dr. Ridley was first in part converted by reading Bertram's book on the sacrament, and by his conferences with Archbishop Cranmer and Peter Martyr.
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When Edward VI was removed from the throne and the Bloody Mary succeeded, Bishop Ridley was immediately marked as an object of slaughter.
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He was first sent to the Tower, and afterward at Oxford, was consigned to the common prison of Boccardo, with Archbishop Cranmer and Mr. Latimer.
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Being separated from them, he was placed in the house of one Irish, where he remained until the day of his martyrdom, from 1554 until October the 16th, 1555.
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Before his ordination, he tells us, he had some thoughts of putting an advertisement in the newspapers to announce that a young clergyman who felt himself an undone sinner and who looked alone to the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation and desired to live only to make him known was persuaded that there must be some persons in the world whose views and feelings accorded with his own, and that if there were any minister of this description he would gladly become his curate and serve him gratis.
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But this singular expedient proved unnecessary, for some time before May 1782 he had regularly attended St. Edward's Church near King's College, a church where Hugh Latimer had ministered in his day.
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There he had found some spiritual assistance in the preaching of the good and lovable vicar, Christopher Atkinson, tutor of Trinity Hall, and gladly would have made his acquaintance, but did not care to introduce himself.
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He hoped that the sight of a young gownsman attending regularly and devoutly would have led to an invitation.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Mr. Samuel suffered August 31, 1555.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Bishop Ridley and Bishop Latimer These reverend prelates suffered October 17, 1555, at Oxford, on the same day Wolseley and Pigott perished at Ely.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Pillars of the church and accomplished ornaments of human nature, they were the admiration of the realm, amiably conspicuous in their lives and glorious in their deaths.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Dr. Ridley was born in Northumberland, was first taught grammar at Newcastle, and afterward removed to Cambridge, where his aptitude in education raised him gradually until he came to be the head of Pembroke College, where he received the title of Doctor of Divinity.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Dr. Ridley was first in part converted by reading Bertram's book on the sacrament, and by his conferences with Archbishop Cranmer and Peter Martyr.
speaker_4NARRATOR
When Edward VI was removed from the throne and the Bloody Mary succeeded, Bishop Ridley was immediately marked as an object of slaughter.
speaker_4NARRATOR
He was first sent to the Tower, and afterward at Oxford, was consigned to the common prison of Bocardo, with Archbishop Cranmer and Mr. Latimer.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Being separated from them, he was placed in the house of one Irish, where he remained until the day of his martyrdom, from 1554 until October the 16th, 1555.
Michael LauriaHOST
And the people loved Robin Hood enough that it frightened the people in charge.
Michael LauriaHOST
In fifteen forty-nine, Hugh Latimer, a famous preacher who'd been a bishop, complained about it in a sermon in front of the king.
Michael LauriaHOST
He'd come to a town to preach and found the church locked.
Michael LauriaHOST
When fun-- when someone finally came, they told him, "Sir, this is a busy day with us.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Mr. Samuel suffered August the 31st, 1555.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Bishop Ridley and Bishop Latimer.
speaker_4NARRATOR
These reverend prelates suffered October the 17th, 1555, at Oxford.
speaker_4NARRATOR
On the same day, Wolseley and Pigott perished at Ely.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Dr. Ridley was first in part converted by reading Bertram's book on the sacrament, and by his conferences with Archbishop Cranmer and Peter Martyr.
speaker_4NARRATOR
When Edward VI was removed from the throne and the bloody Mary succeeded, Bishop Ridley was immediately marked as an object of slaughter.
speaker_4NARRATOR
He was first sent to the Tower, and afterward at Oxford, was consigned to the common prison of Boccardo, with Archbishop Cranmer and Mr. Latimer.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Being separated from them, he was placed in the house of one Irish, where he remained until the day of his martyrdom, from 1554 until October the 16th, 1555.
JimHOST
Now, soon after the beginning of the reign of what we know in history as the Bloody Mary in England, an officer was sent to bring various preachers in for trial.
JimHOST
A particular officer went to take the good and godly preacher by the name of Hugh Latimer and to bring him to London.
JimHOST
Latimer had six hours' notice that they were on their way to get him, but instead of running, fleeing, he just packed and prepared for his journey, and a journey which he knew would end in his execution.
JimHOST
When the officer arrived to take him, Latimer said to him, my friend, come in.
JimHOST
You're welcome here.
JimHOST
I go as a willingly to London to give an account of my faith as ever I went to any place in the world.
JimHOST
She didn't burn him alone either.
JimHOST
She burned two other preachers with him.
Kate TaylorHOST
At his trial, he refused to recant his faith and acknowledge papal authority.
Kate TaylorHOST
But after being forced to watch the burnings of two of his colleagues, Hugh Latimer, former Bishop of Worcester, and Nicholas Ridley, former Bishop of London, Cranmer began to panic.
Kate TaylorHOST
Latimer's death was fairly quick.
Kate TaylorHOST
He called out to the crowd, be of good comfort.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Before his ordination he tells us he had some thoughts of putting an advertisement in the newspapers to announce that a young clergyman who felt himself an undone sinner and who looked alone to the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation and desired to live only to make him known was persuaded that there must be some persons in the world whose views and feelings accorded with his own, and that if there were any minister of this description he would gladly become his curate and serve him gratis.
speaker_4NARRATOR
But this singular expedient proved unnecessary, for some time before May 1782 he had regularly attended St. Edward's Church near King's College, a church where Hugh Latimer had ministered in his day.
speaker_4NARRATOR
There he had found some spiritual assistance in the preaching of the good and lovable vicar, Christopher Atkinson, tutor of Trinity Hall, and gladly would have made his acquaintance but did not care to introduce himself.
speaker_4NARRATOR
He hoped that the sight of a young gownsman attending regularly and devoutly would have led to an invitation.
Kyle GrantGUEST
He's not my favorite reformer.
Kyle GrantGUEST
Um, Hugh Latimer is my favorite reformer, English reformer.
Kyle GrantGUEST
Um, I love Cranmer's story.
Kyle GrantGUEST
Cranmer's not my favorite reformer, but I love his story.
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