The war about The War of the Roses

[a_svirn]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...> 
wrote:
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> > Carol responds:
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> > I found the following list of English Catholics executed between 
1558
> > and 1604 (Elizabeth's reign) on Wikipedia:
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> Potioncat:
> How carefully did you review the list of names? Appears to me that at 
> least one was executed for wizardry, no matter what the records say. 
> I'm snipping to the last name.
> 
> >     * Richard Yaxley, priest, 1589
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I don't know what was stated in the official verdict, but in reality he 
and his three fellows were executed in Oxford for their Catholicism. 
They all were "graduates" of the Catholic academy in Reims (Yaxely was 
actually rather high ranked). The academy was a refuge for English 
Catholic clergy at the time, and Walsingham's spys were busy at work 
finding and identifying people who were associated with this 
institution. All indentified ended up at best in prison (and on the 
rack), and pretty often on the scaffold. (There is very reliable 
evidence that Christopher Marlow was one of such spies.  In Cambridge 
though). 
a_svirn.