Hugh Taylor (priest)
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Hugh Taylor was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.
on 2 May 1582, and was ordained a priest. He was sent on the English mission on 27 March 1585.
He was the first to executed under the Statute 27 Eliz. c. 2., recently passed. On 26 November, Marmaduke Bowes, a married gentleman, was hanged for having harboured him.
Bowes is described by Richard Challoner
as of Angram Grange near Appleton
in Cleveland, but is not mentioned in the will of Christopher Bowes of Angram Grange, proved on 30 September 1568, nor in the 1612 pedigree. The sole evidence against him was that of a former tutor to his children, an apostate Catholic. Having been previously imprisoned at York with his wife, he was under bond to appear at the Assizes which, began on 23 November at York, and on his arrival found that Taylor was about to be arraigned. Bowes was a Catholic who had outwardly conformed to the Church of England
; he was openly a Catholic before his death.
Life
He arrived at ReimsReims
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on 2 May 1582, and was ordained a priest. He was sent on the English mission on 27 March 1585.
He was the first to executed under the Statute 27 Eliz. c. 2., recently passed. On 26 November, Marmaduke Bowes, a married gentleman, was hanged for having harboured him.
Bowes is described by Richard Challoner
Richard Challoner
Richard Challoner was an English Roman Catholic bishop, a leading figure of English Catholicism during the greater part of the 18th century. He is perhaps most famous for his revision of the Douay Rheims translation of the Bible.-Early life:Challoner was born in the Protestant town of Lewes,...
as of Angram Grange near Appleton
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in Cleveland, but is not mentioned in the will of Christopher Bowes of Angram Grange, proved on 30 September 1568, nor in the 1612 pedigree. The sole evidence against him was that of a former tutor to his children, an apostate Catholic. Having been previously imprisoned at York with his wife, he was under bond to appear at the Assizes which, began on 23 November at York, and on his arrival found that Taylor was about to be arraigned. Bowes was a Catholic who had outwardly conformed to the Church of England
Church of England
The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St...
; he was openly a Catholic before his death.