Ashby, Thomas
Ashby, Thomas
Suffered at Tyburn, 29 March, 1544. His name was originally contained in the process of the English Martyrs, as the fact of his execution for denying the King’s Supremacy was mentioned by the chroniclers of the time and from them was recorded by Sander, though not by other Catholic writers. The “Promoter Fidei” rejected this as insufficient, and a somewhat ambiguous statement has since been found in the Grey Friars’ Chronicle; to wit, that Ashby was “sometime a priest and forsook it.” Possibly, therefore, while rejecting the Royal Supremacy, he did not accept the Pope’s.
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STOWEs Chronicle, 586; HOLINSHEDs Chronicle (1586), II, 961; Grey Friars’ Chronicle in the Monumenta Franciscana (Rolls Series, II, 206. SANDER, De Schismate Anglicano, 291.
J.H. POLLEN Transcribed by WGKofron With thanks to St. Mary’s Church, Akron, Ohio
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume ICopyright © 1907 by Robert Appleton CompanyOnline Edition Copyright © 2003 by K. KnightNihil Obstat, March 1, 1907. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., CensorImprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York
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Ashby, Thomas
a minister of the denomination of Friends, was born near London, Jan. 10, 1762. Perhaps there were few, if any, of his brethren who had a deeper sense of ministerial responsibility than he had. After fifty years of ministerial labor, his life was terminated very suddenly, Dec. 20, 1841, by an affection of the heart. See Annual Monitor, 1843, p. 1.