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3 unusual facts about William Pikes


William Pikes

The Mansion stood on the site of the former Holy Trinity Priory, one of the two houses of Augustinian canons in the town, which was dissolved and became the property of Sir Thomas Pope (friend of Thomas More, Wolsey's successor as Chancellor), before being demolished to make way for the new brick mansion built by Edmund Withypoll.

William Pikes (d. Brentford, July 14, 1556) (also William Pickesse, Wyl Pyckes) was a tanner in Ipswich, Suffolk who was arrested in Islington during the Marian persecutions as a member of a group studying the Bible in English, and was burnt at the stake in Brentford.

This took place in a back close, 'in the field by the town of Islington', the chosen place being a walled garden so that they would not be discovered.



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