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Ven. Robert Bickerdike
The Catholic Encyclopedia
or Martyr, a Yorkshire layman, b. at Low Hall, near Knaresborough (date unknown), but residing at York; d. 5 August (or 8 October), 1585. Arrested for giving a priest, Ven. John Boste, a glass of ale, he was also accused at his trial of using treasonable words. He was acquitted, but Judge Rhodes, determined to have his blood, had him removed from the city gaol to the Castle and tried once more at the Lammas Assizes on the same charge. He was then condemned. One of his offences was that, when Ven. Francis Ingleby was being dragged on the hurdle to execution, hearing a minister's wife say: "Let us go into the Tolbooth and we shall see the traitorly thief come over on the hurdle", he said, "No; no thief, but as true as thou art". These words were supposed to be the cause of his death. He suffered at York.
BRIDGEWATER, Concertatio (Trier, 1589); MORRIS, The Catholics of York under Elizabeth (London, 1891); CHALLONER, Memoirs.
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Obstat, Nihil. Lafort, Remy, Censor. Entry for 'Ven. Robert Bickerdike'. The Catholic Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/v/ven-robert-bickerdike.html. Robert Appleton Company. New York. 1914.
