{"id":2067,"date":"2025-11-17T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/?p=2067"},"modified":"2025-11-18T10:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T10:23:09","slug":"november-17th-anniversary-of-the-accession-of-queen-elizabeth-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/november-17th-anniversary-of-the-accession-of-queen-elizabeth-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Anniversary of the accession of Queen Elizabeth I and the end of burning of heretics November 17th"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2547\" height=\"2431\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/eliz_05.jpg?resize=300%2C286&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Black and white drawing of Queen Elizabeth I with a copy of her signature below it\" class=\"wp-image-1086\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/eliz_05.jpg 2547w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/eliz_05-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/eliz_05-1024x977.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/eliz_05-768x733.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/eliz_05-1536x1466.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/eliz_05-2048x1955.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Queen Elizabeth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The anniversary was celebrated in London with bonfires and bell-ringing. Lighted fire-barrels were rolled along Cheapside. It was, in a way, the precursor to Guy Fawkes Day (1605 onwards). Protestants celebrated it with such joy as it was the end of the reign of Elizabeth&#8217;s sister, Queen Mary I. &#8216;Bloody&#8217; Mary, as she was named by Protestants,&nbsp;was the daughter of Katherine of Aragon. Her Government had 287 Protestants burnt at the stake, mostly relatively ordinary people: clergy, apprentices, artisans, and agricultural workers.&nbsp; 60 were women; 67 were Londoners: the majority were of the younger generation, and most from the South East of England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The executions were overwhelmingly unpopular, ghastly exhibitions of brutality.  In 1555 the weather was unusually wet, so the burnings were an even slower form of torture.&nbsp; The savagery was blamed by the Protestants on the Old Religion and particular the Spaniards who came over with Mary&#8217;s Spanish husband.&nbsp; Ironically, Philip, in fact, urged caution. When Mary refused to be as lenient to religious dissidents as she was to political ones, he suggested the executions should, at least, be in private. She refused, as the immortal souls of the population were put at risk by Protestant dogma. So the public nature of the deaths was a justifiable deterrent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When, three years later, in 1558, in the early hours of the 17th November (6am) Queen Mary died, London rejoiced. An old regime, a foreign regime, a Catholic regime was swept away by a young Queen (Elizabeth was 25), with a young Court sworn to protect the new Protestant religion.\u00a0(For <a href=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/january-16th-queen-elizabeths-nicknames\/\">my post on the nicknames for her courtiers look here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More on the accession of Elizabeth I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historytoday.com\/archive\/months-past\/accession-elizabeth-i\">at &#8216;History Today, here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soon, Foxe&#8217;s Book of Martyrs outsold all other books printed except the Bible, and enthusiasm for religious reform morphed into anti-Catholic intolerance.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"432\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2024-11-18-16.12.51-432x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5803\" style=\"width:237px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2024-11-18-16.12.51-432x1024.jpg 432w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2024-11-18-16.12.51-126x300.jpg 126w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2024-11-18-16.12.51-768x1822.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2024-11-18-16.12.51-648x1536.jpg 648w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2024-11-18-16.12.51-863x2048.jpg 863w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2024-11-18-16.12.51-scaled.jpg 1079w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Author&#8217;s copy of Foxe&#8217;s Book of Martyrs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>One of the martyrs in the book is Thomas Tomkins, a weaver and a Londoner from Shoreditch, a few hundred yards from where I live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tomkins was a humble but godly man who was kept imprisoned by Bishop Bonner, the Bishop of London, at his Palace at Fulham. Here he was beaten. The Bishop personally beat him around the face and ripped off part of his beard. The beatings continued for six months. Finally, exasperated at his failure to persuade the weaver of his error, Bonner burnt Tomkins hand with a lighted taper until &#8216;the veins shrunk and the sinews burst&#8217;. I assume Bonner would defend his action by saying he wanted to give the weaver Tomkins a foretaste not only of the burning he faced but of the very fires of Hell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But nothing would avail; Tomkins, the simple man that he was, would not accept that bread was made into flesh.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transubstantiation\">(Transubstantiation)<\/a>. He would not say that which he did not believe. So he met his end at Smithfield by fire with his bandaged hand in the reign of Queen Mary on 16th March 1555.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"743\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Tudor-Walk-thomas-bilney-743x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas Bilney martyred in Smithfield. Black and white engraving\" class=\"wp-image-3528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Tudor-Walk-thomas-bilney-743x1024.jpg 743w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Tudor-Walk-thomas-bilney-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Tudor-Walk-thomas-bilney-768x1058.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Tudor-Walk-thomas-bilney-1114x1536.jpg 1114w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Tudor-Walk-thomas-bilney-1486x2048.jpg 1486w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Tudor-Walk-thomas-bilney-scaled.jpg 1857w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Thomas Bilney martyred in Smithfield. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>First Published 17th November 2023, revised 2024,2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The anniversary was celebrated in London with bonfires and bell-ringing. Lighted fire-barrels were rolled along Cheapside. It was, in a way, the precursor to Guy Fawkes Day (1605 onwards). Protestants celebrated it with such joy as it was the end of the reign of Elizabeth&#8217;s sister, Queen Mary I. &#8216;Bloody&#8217; Mary, as she was named &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/november-17th-anniversary-of-the-accession-of-queen-elizabeth-i\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Anniversary of the accession of Queen Elizabeth I and the end of burning of heretics November 17th&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[112,116,119,321,115,324,4,362,12,322],"tags":[1811,2345,292,291,1812,453,21,293,1781,1810,1809,66],"class_list":["post-2067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-almanac-of-the-past","category-calendar","category-christian-heritage","category-europe","category-folklore","category-history","category-london","category-royal-history","category-tudor-stuart","category-uk","tag-bishop-bonner","tag-bloody-mary","tag-burning-at-the-stake","tag-elizabeth-1","tag-foxes-book-of-martyrs","tag-heresy","tag-london","tag-mary-i","tag-smithfield","tag-thomas-tomkins","tag-transubstantiation","tag-tudor"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Anniversary of the accession of Queen Elizabeth I and the end of burning of heretics November 17th - And Did Those Feet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Anniversary of the accession of Queen Elizabeth I and the end of the Marian Reign of Terror. 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