Rose Lok (26 December 1526 – 21 November 1613) was an English businesswoman and Protestant exile during the Tudor period.
1581), who married firstly a London mercer, Richard Hill, and secondly Nicholas Bullingham, Bishop of Lincoln; and Jane Lok.
Sir William Lok and his wife were Protestants, and supported Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon.
In it she told of her parents' activities in furtherance of their Protestant beliefs, including her father's pulling down in 1534 of a copy of the Papal bull excommunicating Henry VIII which had been posted in Dunkirk, of his bringing French translations of the Gospels and Epistles from the continent for Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn, and of her mother's having read aloud evangelical tracts to Rose and her sisters in secret when they were children.
[9] Hickman and Thomas Lok owned several ships, including the Mary Rose[10] which was named after their respective wives.
[4] When the Catholic Mary I came to the throne in 1553, Anthony Hickman and Thomas Lok were committed to the Fleet prison for having aided imprisoned Protestants and for having maintained religious heresy.
According to Lowe, although her life was one of devoted Protestantism, "she was also very caught up with business and material concerns, and with the impact of religious changes on her standard of living".