Joan Waste

In 1553, Queen Mary I came to the throne and in January 1555 it was made illegal by Parliament to hold Protestant views.

Some were famous, the bishops Thomas Cranmer, Hugh Latimer, and Nicholas Ridley among them, but many executed between spring 1555 and the queen's death in November 1558 were from "the lower orders".

[3] Waste was called before the Catholic Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, Ralph Baines'[1] chancellor, Anthony Draycot, to defend her views; and for these she was condemned.

[6] On the day of her death she was reported to have held hands with her twin brother as she walked to her pyre.

[7] A blue plaque commemorating the site of Waste's execution was erected in Lime Avenue by Derby Civic Society in February 2017.

Joan and her family attended services at St Peter's in Derby where they heard the services in English until Mary became Queen. [ 4 ]
Windmill Hill Pit in the 19C (It was known as the "ordeal pit" in the eleventh century). [ 6 ]