Richard Lush was a 16th-century English Protestant reformer and presumed martyr.
He was from Chew Stoke,[1] and was condemned to death for heresy by Gilbert Bourne, bishop of Bath and Wells.
[2][3] John Foxe, in his Actes and Monumentes, lists the nine items in the charge against Lush:[4] Foxe could not find a record of his death,[3] and notes that he was "burnt and executed, vnlesse peraduenture in þe mean season he dyed or was made away in the prison: wherof I haue no certeinty to expresse."
William Hunt says that "it may be taken for granted that he was not put to death,"[3] while Thomas Fuller suggested that, "it is probable that this poor Isaac, thus bound to the altar, was afterward sacrificed, except some intervening angel stayed the stroke of the sword.
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