Colchester Martyrs

They were executed for heresy in Colchester, Essex, during the reigns of Henry VIII and Mary I.

[1] John Lawrence, a priest and former Blackfriar at Sudbury, Suffolk[2] was burned at the stake.

[4][6] William Bongeor, Thomas Benhote, William Purchase, Agnes Silverside, Helen Ewring, Elizabeth Folk, William Munt, John Johnson, Alice Munt and Rose Allen were taken to Colchester Castle and burned at the stake.

[7] Agnes Bongeor, wife of Richard Bongeor, John Kurde, and Margaret (Widow) Thurston were burned at the stake[8][4] William Harris, Richard Day and Christian George (female) were burned at the stake.

[11] A monument to these victims of the Marian persecutions is in St Peter's Church on North Hill;[12] another is in the Colchester Town Hall.

A 17th century woodcut showing Rose Allin or Allen, being arrested together with her stepfather and mother, William and Alice Mount or Munt on 7 March 1557 for their Protestant beliefs. They, along with seven others, were burnt at the stake at Colchester on 2 August 1557; some of the Colchester Martyrs.