Alexander Rawlins (1560 - 7 April 1595) was an English Roman Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.
[1] In June 1586, he was arrested for the second time, with Swithun Wells, a known Catholic sympathizer, and seminarian Christopher Dryland and imprisoned in Newgate.
He travelled widely, mostly on foot, going to Rome and Paris before arriving at Reims, where he entered the college in December 1587.
Rawlins was ordained a priest at Soissons on 18 March 1590 and sent on the English mission on 9 April.
[4] The hangmen would have cut him down to be disembowelled alive, but they were stayed by a gentleman on horseback who made them wait until Rawlins was dead, and then lower the rope so his body should not fall.