The Catholic martyrs of England are men and women who died for the Roman Catholic faith in the years between 1534 and 1680

English Reformation

The English Reformation was the series of events in 16th-century England by which the Church of England broke away from the authority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church....

. Certain of them have officially been recognized as martyr

Martyr

A martyr is somebody who suffers persecution and death for refusing to renounce, or accept, a belief or cause, usually religious.-Meaning:...

s by the Catholic Church.

Catholics in England and Wales were executed under treason

Treason

In law, treason is the crime that covers some of the more extreme acts against one's sovereign or nation. Historically, treason also covered the murder of specific social superiors, such as the murder of a husband by his wife. Treason against the king was known as high treason and treason against a...

 laws. Legislation of the 16th century made treasonable refusing to assent to the royal supremacy over the Church that had been asserted by Henry VIII

Henry VIII of England

Henry VIII was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was Lord, and later King, of Ireland, as well as continuing the nominal claim by the English monarchs to the Kingdom of France...

, or being or harbouring a Catholic priest. The standard penalty for all those convicted of treason at the time was execution by being hanged, drawn and quartered

Hanged, drawn and quartered

To be hanged, drawn and quartered was from 1351 a penalty in England for men convicted of high treason, although the ritual was first recorded during the reigns of King Henry III and his successor, Edward I...

.

Groups with official recognition by the Catholic Church include:

• the 54 martyrs recognised as blessed equipollently on 29 December 1886
• the nine martyrs recognised as blessed equipollently on 13 May 1895
• the 136 martyrs beatified
  Beatification
  Beatification is a recognition accorded by the Catholic Church of a dead person's entrance into Heaven and capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in his or her name . Beatification is the third of the four steps in the canonization process...
  
   on 15 December 1929
• the forty martyrs
  Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
  The Forty Martyrs of England and Wales are a group of men and women who were executed for treason and related offences in the Kingdom of England between 1535 and 1679...
  
   canonized on 25 October 1970
• the 85 martyrs
  Eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales
  The Eighty-five Martyrs of England and Wales are a group of men who were executed on charges of treason and related offences in the Kingdom of England between 1584 and 1679...
  
   beatified on 22 November 1987
• the 18 Carthusian Martyrs
  Carthusian Martyrs
  The Carthusian Martyrs were a group of monks of the London Charterhouse, the monastery of the Carthusian Order in central London, who were put to death by the English state from June 19, 1535 to September 20, 1537. The method of execution was hanging, disembowelling while still alive and then...
  
  

1534 - 1560

• Thomas Abel
  Thomas Abel
  The Blessed Thomas Abel was an English priest who was martyred during the reign of Henry VIII. The place and date of his birth are unknown....
  
  , priest, 1540
• John Allen, priest, 1538
• George Ashby (Asleby), monk, 1537

• Ralph Barnes, monk, 1537
• Elizabeth Barton
  Elizabeth Barton
  Sr. Elizabeth Barton was an English Catholic nun...
  
  , Benedictine nun, 1534
• John Beche, Abbot of Colchester, 1539; beatified 1895
• Thomas Belchiam
  Thomas Belchiam
  Venerable Thomas Belchiam was an English Franciscan who died in Newgate Prison in the reign of Henry VIII. He is a Catholic martyr, declared venerable by Pope Leo XIII. The year of death is in question: the Victoria County History for Kent puts the events in 1534.-Life:He was a friar of the...
  
  , Franciscan friar, 1538
• Arthur Bell, Franciscan friar, 1543
• Richard Bere, Carthusian monk, 1537
• Robert Bird, priest, 1540
• William Bird, priest, 1540
• Laurence Blonham, monk, 1537
• Edward Bocking
  Edward Bocking
  Edward Bocking was associated with Braintree, Essex. Father Bocking was a controversial monk during the reign of King Henry VIII. He attended Oxford where he received B.D. in 1513 and a D.D. in 1518. He served as the Warden of Canterbury for a period of time. Bocking became a monk in 1526...
  
  , Benedictine, 1537
• Edmund Brindholme
  Edmund Brindholme
  Edmund Brindholme was an English Catholic priest, executed under an act of attainder on a charge of involvement in a plot to betray Calais, then an English possession, to the French....
  
  , priest, 1544
• Anthony Brookby
  Anthony Brookby
  Anthony Brookby was an English Franciscan theologian. He offended Henry VIII, and became a Catholic martyr. Brookby was a lecturer in theology at Magdalen College, Oxford. He was well versed in Greek and Hebrew, and enjoyed a reputation as an eloquent preacher...
  
  , Franciscan, 1538
• Thomas Brownel, Brigittine brother
• Edward Burden, priest, 1538
• William Burraby, priest, 1537

• James Cockerell, Prior of Gisborough Priory
  Gisborough Priory
  Gisborough Priory is a ruined former Augustinian priory in the town of Guisborough, now in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1119 as the Priory of St. Mary by Robert de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale, an ancestor of the...
  
  , 1537
• William Coe, monk, 1537
• Lawrence Cook, Carmelite. Prior of Doncaster Friary, 1540
• Richard Coppinger, Benedictine, 1558
• Thomas Cort, Franciscan, 1537
• Martin Coudres, Augustinian monk, 1544
• William Cowper, monk, 1537
• George Croft, priest, 1538

• John Davy, Carthusian, 1537
• John Dering, Benedictine, 1537

• John Eastgate, monk, 1537
• Richard Eastgate, monk, 1537
• Thomas Empson, Benedictine, 1540
• William Exmew
  William Exmew
  Blessed William Exmew, was an English Catholic priest, Carthusian monk and martyr. Exmew was beatified by Pope Leo XIII, on 9 December 1886.-Life:...
  
  , Carthusian monk, 1535
• John Eynon, priest, 1539; beatified 1895

• Hugh Faringdon, Abbot of Reading, 1539; beatified 1895
• Richard Featherstone, Archdeacon, 1540
• John Fisher
  John Fisher
  Saint John Fisher was an English Roman Catholic scholastic, bishop, cardinal and martyr. He shares his feast day with Saint Thomas More on 22 June in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints and 6 July on the Church of England calendar of saints...
  
  , Bishop of Rochester, 1535; canonized 1935
• John Forrest, Franciscan friar, 1538
• Adrian Fortescue
  Adrian Fortescue (martyr)
  Sir Adrian Fortescue was a courtier at the court of King Henry VIII of England who was executed in 1539 and later beatified as a Roman Catholic martyr.-Life:...
  
  , Knight of St. John of Jerusalem, 1539; beatified 1895
• John Francis, monk, 1537

• German Gardiner
  German Gardiner
  German Gardiner was a Roman Catholic layman, nephew to Stephen Gardiner, who became involved in the Prebendaries' Plot against Thomas Cranmer....
  
  , 1544
• Henry Gold, priest, 1537
• William Greenwood, Carthusian brother, 1537
• William Gylham, monk, 1537

• John Haile (or Hale), priest, 1535
• Richard Harrison, Abbot of Jervaulx, 1537
• William Haydock, monk, 1537
• Nicholas Heath, Prior of Lenton, 1537
• John Henmarsh, priest, 1537
• Robert Hobbes, Abbot of Woburn, 1537
• John Houghton, Prior of the London Charterhouse, 1535; canonized 1970

• John Ireland, priest, 1544

• Roger James, Benedictine, 1539; beatified 1895
• Henry Jenkinson, monk, 1537

• Thomas Kendal, priest, 1537

• John Larke
  John Larke
  Blessed John Larke was an English priest and martyr, who was executed during the reign of Henry VIII. He was a personal friend of Thomas More....
  
  , priest, 1543
• Robert Lawrence
  Robert Lawrence (martyr)
  St. Robert Lawrence was one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. After joining the Carthusians, he served as prior of the Beauvale Charterhouse, Nottinghamshire, at the time when King Henry VIII of England broke with Rome and launched the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Robert went with St...
  
  , Prior of the Beauvale Charterhouse, 1535; canonized 1970
• Richard Laynton, monk, 1537
• Robert Leeche, layman, 1537
• Hugh Londale, monk, 1537

• Matthew Mackerel, Premonstratensian
  Premonstratensian
  The Order of Canons Regular of Prémontré, also known as the Premonstratensians, the Norbertines, or in Britain and Ireland as the White Canons , are a Catholic religious order of canons regular founded at Prémontré near Laon in 1120 by Saint Norbert, who later became Archbishop of Magdeburg...
  
   abbot, titular bishop of Chalcedon, 1537
• James Mallet, priest, 1537
• Richard Masters, priest, 1537
• Humphrey Middlemore
  Humphrey Middlemore
  Blessed Humphrey Middlemore was a Roman Catholic priest and Carthusian monk, from England. He is considered a martyr by the Catholic Church...
  
  , Carthusian monk, 1535
• Thomas More
  Thomas More
  Sir Thomas More , also known by Catholics as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist. He was an important councillor to Henry VIII of England and, for three years toward the end of his life, Lord Chancellor...
  
  , layman, 1535; canonized 1935

• Sebastian Newdigate
  Sebastian Newdigate
  Blessed Sebastian Newdigate was a Roman Catholic priest and Carthusian monk, of England. He is considered a martyr by the Catholic Church....
  
  , Carthusian monk, 1535

• John Paslew, Abbot of Whatley, 1537
• Paul of Saint William, Augustinian monk, 1544
• William Peterson, priest, 1540
• John Pickering, Benedictine, prior of York, 1537
• John Pickering, priest, 1537
• Walter Pierson, Carthusian, 1537
• Edward Powell
  Edward Powell
  Edward Powell was a Welsh Roman Catholic priest and theologian, in opposition to Henry VIII of England. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1886.-Life:...
  
  , priest, 1540

• Thomas Redforth, priest, 1537
• Richard Reynolds, Brigittine monk of Syon Abbey, 1535; canonized 1970
• Hugh Rich, Franciscan friar, 1534
• William Richardson, priest, 1540
• Richard Risby
  Richard Risby
  Richard Risby was an English Catholic monk.He entered Winchester College in 1500, and was subsequently a fellow of New College, Oxford, taking his degree in 1510. He resigned in 1513 to enter the Franciscan Order, and eventually became warden of the Observant friary at Canterbury...
  
  , Franciscan friar, 1534
• John Rochester
  John Rochester (martyr)
  Blessed John Rochester was an English Catholic priest, Carthusian monk and martyr.-Church versus State:He resolutely rejected the affirmation of the royal supremacy in matters ecclesiastical...
  
  , Carthusian monk, 1537
• John Rugg, Benedictine monk, 1539; beatified 1895

• Adam Sedbar, Abbot of Jervaulx
  Adam Sedbar, Abbot of Jervaulx
  Adam Sedbar or Sedbergh was the 23rd and last Abbot of Jervaulx Abbey in Wensleydale, YorkshireAdam Sedbar had been elected abbot of the Cistercian abbey of Jervaulx in 1533 when Henry VIII introduced his plans for the Dissolution of the MonasteriesHe was persuaded in 1536, somewhat reluctantly,...
  
  , 1537
• Robert Singleton
  Robert Singleton
  Robert Singleton , also known as John, was an English Roman Catholic priest, executed on a treason charge. He is considered a Catholic martyr by Antonio Possevino, in his Apparatus Sacer.-Life:...
  
  , priest, 1544
• Thomas Slythurst
  Thomas Slythurst
  Thomas Slythurst was an English academic and Roman Catholic priest. He was the first President of Trinity College, Oxford. He lost his positions in 1559, on the accession of Elizabeth I of England, by his refusal to take the Oath of Supremacy. It has been said that he died in the Tower of London,...
  
  , priest, 1560
• John Stone, Augustinian friar, 1538; canonized 1970
• William Swale, monk, 1537

• John Tenant, monk, 1537
• John Thorne, Benedictine monk, 1539; beatified 1895
• William Thyrsk, Cistercian, 1537
• William Trafford, Abbot of Sawley, 1537
• John Travers, monk, 1539

• Richard Wade, monk, 1537
• Friar Waire, Franciscan, 1539
• James Walworth, Carthusian monk, 1537
• Augustine Webster
  Augustine Webster
  Saint Augustine Webster was an English Catholic martyr.He was educated at Cambridge University. He became the prior of Our Lady of Melwood, a Carthusian house at Epworth, on the Isle of Axholme, in north Lincolnshire, in 1531...
  
  , Prior of the Axholme Charterhouse, 1535; canonized 1970
• Sister Isabel Whitehead, Benedictine nun
• Richard Whiting, Abbot of Glastonbury, 1539; beatified 1895

Decrees of Elizabeth I

After Elizabeth I's accession to the throne, the religion of the country was changed again to make it Protestant. Within England, however, there were still many people who did not agree with this and continued to remain loyal to the old faith. The threat of a foreign invasion from a Catholic country that could be assisted by a rebellion of English subjects led the Crown to try to stamp out Catholicism with repressive measures.

Elizabeth I's government had passed a number of anti-Catholic decrees in 1571, including the following:

• forbidding anyone from maintaining the jurisdiction of the pope by word, deed or act
• compulsory use of the Book of Common Prayer
  Book of Common Prayer
  The Book of Common Prayer is the short title of a number of related prayer books used in the Anglican Communion, as well as by the Continuing Anglican, "Anglican realignment" and other Anglican churches. The original book, published in 1549 , in the reign of Edward VI, was a product of the English...
  
   in all cathedrals, churches and chapels, as well as the forbiddance of criticism of it
• forbidding the publication of any bull, writing or instrument of the Holy See (the death penalty was assigned to this)
• the importing of Agnus Dei, crosses, pictures, beads or other things from the Bishop of Rome was forbidden

Later laws:

• to draw anyone away from the state religion was forbidden
• non-attendance at a Church of England church was legally forbidden
• raising children with teachers that were not licensed by an Anglican diocesan bishop was not allowed
• the Catholic Mass was forbidden

In 1585 a new decree was issued that made it a crime punishable by death to go overseas to receive the sacrament of Ordination to the Catholic priesthood or permanent diaconate. Nicholas Devereux (who went by the alias of Woodson) and Edward Barber (see below Edward Stransham

Edward Stransham

Edward Stransham was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:...

) were both put to death in 1586 under this law. William Thompson and Richard Lea (see below Richard Sergeant

Richard Sergeant

Richard Sergeant was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:...

) were hanged, bowelled and quartered under the same law. In 1588, eight priests and six laymen at Newgate were condemned and executed under this law.

1561 - 1600 List

• John Ackridge, priest, 1585
• Thomas Ackridge, Franciscan, 1583
• John Adams
  John Adams (martyr)
  John Adams was a Catholic priest and martyr.He was born at Winterborne St Martin in Dorset at an unknown date and became a Protestant minister. He later entered the Catholic Church and travelled to the English College then at Rheims, arriving on December 7, 1579. He was ordained a priest at...
  
  , priest, 1586; beatified 1987
• Thomas Alfield, priest, 1585
• John Almond
  John Almond
  John Almond was a Cistercian monk. He is commemorated as a Confessor of the Faith in the Roman Catholic Church, and his name has been included in the supplementary process of the English Martyrs....
  
  , Cistercian, 1585
• John Amias, priest, 1589
• Robert Anderton
  Robert Anderton
  Robert Anderton was an English Roman Catholic priest and martyr. He has been declared a blessed person by the Roman Catholic Church. His feast day is April 25....
  
  , priest, 1586
• William Andleby
  William Andleby
  William Andleby was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:...
  
  , priest, 1597

• William Baldwin (Bawden), priest, 1588
• Christopher Bales
  Christopher Bales
  The Venerable Christopher Bales, also spelled Christopher Bayles, alias Christopher Evers , was an English Catholic priest and martyr.-Biography:Christopher was born at Coniscliffe near Darlington, County Durham, England, about 1564...
  
  , priest, 1590
• Thomas Bedal, priest, 1590
• George Beesley
  George Beesley
  George Beesley was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:...
  
  , priest, 1591; beatified 1987
• Thomas Belson
  Thomas Belson
  Blessed Thomas Belson was an English Roman Catholic layman. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:...
  
  , layman, 1589; beatified 1987
• Robert Bickerdike
  Robert Bickerdike (martyr)
  Robert Bickerdike was an English Roman Catholic layman, executed on a treason charge. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:...
  
  , layman, 1586; beatified 1987
• William Blackburne, priest, 1586
• Alexander Blake, layman, 1590; beatified 1987
• John Bodey
  John Bodey
  John Bodey was an English Roman Catholic academic jurist and theologian. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:...
  
  , priest, 1583; was executed at Andover by being quartered. At his execution he said

  Indeede, I have been sufficiently censured, for I have been condemned twice; if you may make the hearing of a Blessed Mass treason, or the saying of an Ave Maria treason, you may make what you please treason... I acknowledge her as my Lawful Queen in all temporal causes, and none other... Ye shall understand, good people all, I suffer death not for not granting her Majestie to be supreme head of Christ's Church in England, which I may not and will not grant; I pray God long to preserve her Majestie in tranquility over you, even Queen Elizabeth, your queen and mine; I desire you to obey none other.

• John Boste
  John Boste
  Saint John Boste is a saint in the Roman Catholic Church, and one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.-Life:John Boste was born in Westmorland around 1544. He studied at Queen's College, Oxford where he became a Fellow. He converted to Catholicism in 1576...
  
  , priest, 1594; canonized 1970
• Marmaduke Bowes, layman, 1585; beatified 1987
• Richard Bowes
  Richard Bowes
  Richard Bowes is an American author of science fiction and fantasy.Richard Bowes was born in Boston in 1944. He attended school both in Boston and on Long Island, New York. In his third year, he took writing courses with Mark Eisenstein at Hofstra University...
  
  , priest, 1590
• John Bretton, layman, 1598; beatified 1987
• Alexander Briant
  Alexander Briant
  Saint Alexander Briant was an English Jesuit and martyr, executed at Tyburn.He was born in Somerset, and entered Hart Hall, Oxford , at an early age...
  
  , Jesuit priest, 1581; canonized 1970
• James Brushford, priest, 1593
• Edmund Burden, priest, 1588; beatified 1987
• Christopher Buxton
  Christopher Buxton
  Christopher Buxton was an English Catholic priest and martyr.He was a scholar of Nicholas Garlick at the Grammar School, Tideswell, in the Peak District, studied for the priesthood at Reims and Rome, and was ordained in 1586...
  
  , priest, died Canterbury, 1588
• Edmund Campion
  Edmund Campion
  Saint Edmund Campion, S.J. was an English Roman Catholic martyr and Jesuit priest. While conducting an underground ministry in officially Protestant England, Campion was arrested by priest hunters. Convicted of high treason by a kangaroo court, he was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn...
  
  , Jesuit priest, 1581; beatified 1886, canonized 1970, was a well known scholar at Oxford who had developed a great reputation in England. He went abroad and became a Jesuit priest, and after his return he was apprehended at Oxfordshire, brought to London and lodged in the Tower. Great pressure was put on him to recant. He was brought to the Queen and the Earl of Leicester. He was told that he could even become the Archbishop of Canterbury if he recanted. When this failed he was tortured on the rack twice and then afterwards brought to trial. He was condemned to death and hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn.
• William Carter, layman, 1584; beatified 1987
• James Claxton (Clarkson), priest, 1588
• James Clayton
  James Clayton (priest)
  James Clayton was an English Roman Catholic priest.-Life:He was the son of a shoemaker, apprenticed to a blacksmith for seven years. He spent his leisure hours in educating himself, giving special attention to the study of Latin...
  
  , priest, 1588
• Margaret Clitherow
  Margaret Clitherow
  Saint Margaret Clitherow is an English saint and martyr of the Roman Catholic Church. She is sometimes called "the Pearl of York".-Life:...
  
  , laywoman, 1586; canonized 1970, was pressed to death at York.
• Henry Cole
  Henry Cole (priest)
  Henry Cole was an English Roman Catholic churchman and academic.-Life:...
  
  , priest, 1580
• Laurence Collier
  Laurence Collier
  Sir Laurence Collier KCMG was the British ambassador to Norway between 1939 and 1950, including the period when Norway's government was in exile in London during the Second World War....
  
  , Franciscan, 1590
• John Collins, priest, 1584
• Henry Comberford, priest, 1584
• John Cornelius
  John Cornelius
  Blessed John Cornelius was an English Catholic priest and Jesuit. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:Sir John Arundell took an interest in the boy and sent him to the University of Oxford...
  
  , Jesuit priest, 1594
• Thomas Cotesmore, priest, 1584
• Thomas Cottam
  Thomas Cottam
  Blessed Thomas Cottam was an English Catholic priest and martyr from Lancashire, who was executed during the reign of Elizabeth I.-Life:...
  
  , Jesuit priest, 1582
• Richard Creagh
  Richard Creagh
  Richard Creagh was an Irish Catholic Archbishop of Armagh.-Life:...
  
  , archbishop of Armagh, 1585
• Ralph Crockett
  Ralph Crockett
  Blessed Ralph Crockett was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:...
  
  , priest, 1588
• Alexander Crowe, priest, 1586; beatified 1987
• Thomas Crowther, priest, 1585

• Robert Dalby, priest, York, 1589
• William Davies
  William Davies (priest)
  William Davies was a Welsh Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987. There is a chapel in Anglesey built as a memorial to him.-Life:...
  
  , priest, 1593; beatified 1987
• William Dean
  William Dean (priest)
  William Dean was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:...
  
  , priest, 1588
• Robert Dibdale
  Robert Dibdale
  Robert Dibdale, or Debdale, was a Catholic priest and martyr.He was born the son of John Dibdale of Shottery, in the parish of Stratford-upon-Avon and the birthplace of William Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway at a date unknown. He had a brother Richard and sisters Joan and Agnes. It would seem...
  
  , priest, 1586; beatified 1987
• Francis Dicconson, priest, 1590
• Roger Dicconson, priest, 1591
• George Douglas, priest, 1587; beatified 1987
• Anthony Draycott, priest, 1570
• Edmund Duke, priest, 1590; beatified 1987

• Edward Edwardes (alias Campion), priest, 1588
• George Errington
  George Errington
  George Errington , the second son of Thomas Errington and Katherine of Clints Hall, Richmond, Yorkshire, was a Roman Catholic churchman....
  
  , layman, 1596; beatified 1987

• John Feckenham
  John Feckenham
  John Feckenham , also known as John Howman of Feckingham and later John de Feckenham or John Fecknam, was an English churchman, the last abbot of Westminster.-Under Henry VIII and Edward VI:...
  
  , Benedictine, abbot of Westminster, 1585
• Thomas Felton
  Thomas Felton (martyr)
  Thomas Felton was a Franciscan friar, a Roman Catholic martyr and son of the Roman Catholic martyr, John Felton.Felton was born about 1567 at Bermondsey Abbey, Surrey, was in his youth page to Lady Lovett. Afterwards he was sent to the English College at Rheims, where he received the first...
  
  , Franciscan, 1588
• James Fenn, priest, 1584
• John Finch
  John Finch (martyr)
  John Finch was an English Roman Catholic farmer. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:He was a yeoman of Eccleston, Lancashire, from a Catholic family, but brought up an Anglican. When he was twenty years old he went to London where he spent nearly a year with some cousins at Inner...
  
  , 1584
• John Finglow
  John Finglow
  John Finglow or Fingley was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:...
  
  , priest, 1586; beatified 1987
• Richard Flower, layman, 1588; beatified 1987
• William Freeman
  William Freeman
  William Freeman was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:...
  
  , priest, 1595

• Thomas Gabyt, Cistercian, 1575
• Nicholas Garlick
  Nicholas Garlick
  Blessed Nicholas Garlick was an English catholic priest, martyred in Derby in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.- Early life :...
  
  , priest, 1588; beatified 1987
• Edmund Gennings
  Edmund Gennings
  Saint Edmund Gennings was an English martyr, who was executed during the English Reformation for being a Catholic priest. He came from Lichfield, Staffordshire. His name is sometimes spelled Jennings....
  
  , priest, 1591; canonized 1970
• Miles Gerard
  Miles Gerard
  Miles Gerard was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:...
  
  , priest, 1590
• William Gibson
  William Gibson (martyr)
  Blessed William Gibson was martyred by Anglicans at York for professing the Roman Catholic faith. He was from Ripon, in Yorkshire....
  
  , layman, 1596; beatified 1987
• Nicholas Grene, priest, 1571
• - Gretus, priest
• Ralph Grimston, layman, 1598; beatified 1987
• John Griffith (alias Jones), Saint, Franciscan friar, 1598
• William Gunter, priest, 1588
• Richard Gwyn
  Richard Gwyn
  Richard John Philip Jermy Gwyn, is a Canadian civil servant, journalist and author.-Early life:Richard Gwyn was born on May 26, 1934, in Bury St. Edmunds, England, and was the second son to his parents Brigadier Philip Eustace Congreve Jermy-Gwyn, an Indian Army officer, and Elizabeth Edith...
  
  , layman, 1584; canonized 1970

• William Hambledon, priest, 1585
• John Hambley
  John Hambley (martyr)
  The Venerable John Hambley was an English Catholic and martyr, who died during the reign of Elizabeth I.Born and educated in Cornwall, Hambley was converted to Catholicism by reading one of Robert Persons' books in 1582. He studied at Rheims from 1583 to 1585 and then returned and worked in the...
  
  , priest, 1587; beatified 1987
• Everard Hanse, priest, 1581, a native of Northamptonshire, was a church of England clergymen who had gone abroad and been ordained a catholic priest. He declared his loyalty to the pope, and was hanged and disembowelled.
• Robert Hardesty, layman, 1589; beatified 1987
• Nicholas Harpsfield
  Nicholas Harpsfield
  Nicholas Harpsfield was an English historian, Catholic apologist and priest.-Early life and exile:Harpsfield was educated at Winchester College and studied canon and civil law in New College, Oxford, receiving a BCL in 1543...
  
  , priest, 1575
• William Harrington
  William Harrington (priest)
  William Harrington was an English Jesuit priest. He is a Roman Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:His father had entertained Edmund Campion at the ancestral home, Mount St. John, early in 1581...
  
  , priest, 1594
• John Harrison
  John Harrison
  John Harrison was a self-educated English clockmaker. He invented the marine chronometer, a long-sought device in solving the problem of establishing the East-West position or longitude of a ship at sea, thus revolutionising and extending the possibility of safe long distance sea travel in the Age...
  
  , priest, 1586
• William Harrison, priest, 1594
• William Hart
  William Hart (priest)
  William Hart was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1886.-Life:...
  
  , priest, 1583, was found guilty of being a priest and reconciling people to the Catholic Church.
• William Hartley, priest, 1588
• Thomas Harwood
  Thomas Harwood
  Captain Thomas Harwood was a Virginia soldier, landowner and politician. He served multiple terms as a burgess in the 1630s and 1640s, and was "one of the chieff of the Mutinous Burgesses" who expelled Governor Sir John Harvey in 1635. He was Speaker of the House of Burgesses 1647–49, and...
  
  , priest, 1586
• Richard Hatton, priest, 1584
• George Haydock
  George Haydock
  George Haydock was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:...
  
  , priest, 1584; beatified 1987
• Thomas Hemerford, priest, 1584
• John Hewitt
  John Hewitt (priest)
  John Hewitt or Hewett was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:His father was William Hewett of York...
  
  , priest, 1588
• Richard Hill
  Richard Hill (martyr)
  Richard Hill, Richard Holiday, John Hogg and Edmund Duke were English Roman Catholic priests and martyrs.Not much is known of their early lives. Duke was born in Kent in 1563. The other three came from Yorkshire but their dates of birth are unknown...
  
  , priest, 1590; beatified 1987
• John Hogg
  John Hogg
  John Joseph Hogg is an Australian politician, and has been a member of the Australian Senate for the state of Queensland since July 1996, representing the Australian Labor Party. He was elected the 23rd President of the Senate on 26 August 2008.Hogg was born in Brisbane to Francis Patrick and...
  
  , priest, 1590; beatified 1987
• Thomas Holford, priest, 1588
• Richard Holiday, priest, 1590; beatified 1987
• Robert Holmes, priest, 1584
• Richard Horner, priest, 1598
• Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel, layman, 1595; canonized 1970
• Thomas Hunt, priest, 1600; beatified 1987

• Francis Ingleby
  Francis Ingleby
  Blessed Francis Ingleby was a Roman Catholic martyr executed in York, England during the reign of Elizabeth I.He has been described as short but well-made, fair-complexioned, with a chestnut beard, and a slight cast in his eyes. He was the fourth son of Sir William Ingleby and Anne Malory...
  
  , priest, 1586; beatified 1987
• John Ingram, priest, 1594

• Edward James
  Edward James (martyr)
  Blessed Edward James Blessed Edward James Blessed Edward James (born at Barton, Breaston, near Long Eaton, Derbyshire, c. 1557, executed at Chichester, Sussex, 1 October 1588, was an English Catholic priest and martyr.-Education:...
  
  , priest, 1588
• John Jetter, priest, 1585
• Lawrence Johnson
  Lawrence Johnson
  Lawrence Johnson is a pole vaulter, born in Norfolk, Virginia, United States. LoJo began pole vaulting in 1989 and since has records on all stages and led the charge to return the US to the international medal podium...
  
  , priest, 1582
• Robert Johnson
  Robert Johnson (martyr)
  Blessed Robert Johnson, a Shropshire native, was a Catholic priest and martyr during the reign of Elizabeth I.He joined the German College in Rome on October 1, 1571. He was ordained a priest in Brussels from the English College, Douai. After a pilgrimage to Rome in 1579 he returned to England in...
  
  , priest, 1582
• Edward Jones, priest, 1590
• John Jones, Franciscan priest, 1598; canonized 1970

• Luke Kirby
  Luke Kirby
  Saint Luke Kirby was an English Catholic priest and martyr from the North of England, executed during the reign of Elizabeth I....
  
  , priest, 1582; canonized 1970
• William Knight
  William Knight (martyr)
  The Blessed William Knight was an Englishman put to death for his Roman Catholic faith at York, England. With him also suffered the Venerable George Errington of Herst, Northumberland; the Venerable William Gibson of Ripon; and the Venerable William Abbot of Howden, Yorkshire.Knight was the son of...
  
  , layman, 1596; beatified 1987

• Joseph Lambton
  Joseph Lambton
  Joseph Lambton was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:...
  
  , priest, 1592; beatified 1987
• William Lampley
  William Lampley
  William Jerome Lampley was a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1935 to 1940 sitting with the governing Social Credit caucus.-Political career:...
  
  , layman, 1588; beatified 1987
• Richard Leigh
  Richard Leigh (martyr)
  Blessed Richard Leigh was an English martyr born in Cambridgeshire. He studied in Reims and Rome and was ordained in Rome in 1586. On his return to England he was arrested in London and banished. He returned to England again and was imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1588...
  
  , priest, 1588
• James Lomax, priest, 1584
• John Lowe
  John Lowe
  John Lowe is an English darts player who was one of the best-known men in darts during the 1970s and 1980s, particularly in the United Kingdom. Lowe is one of only five players to have won the World Championship 3 times.-Biography:Lowe won the World Championship title in three different decades -...
  
  , priest, 1586; beatified 1987
• Robert Ludlam
  Robert Ludlam
  Blessed Robert Ludlam was an English priest, martyred in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. He was born around 1551, in Derbyshire. His father was a yeoman. He matriculated at St John's College, Oxford, in 1575, and remained there for two or three years, but left without taking a degree...
  
  , priest, 1588; beatified 1987

• William Marsden, priest, 1586
• Roger Martin
  Roger Martin
  Roger Martin is Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and an author of several business books. Martin has originated several important business concepts in use today, including integrative thinking...
  
  , priest, 1592
• Cuthbert Mayne
  Cuthbert Mayne
  'Saint Cuthbert Mayne was an English Roman Catholic priest and martyr of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation.- Early life :...
  
  , priest, 1577; canonized 1970, was executed under the 1571 legislation after he was caught entering the country in possession of an Agnus Dei as well as a copy of a 1575 bull of Pope Gregory XVI.
• Thomas Metham
  Thomas Metham
  Sir Thomas Metham was an English Roman Catholic knight, imprisoned with his second wife for their beliefs.-Life:Metham was the eldest son of Thomas Metham, of Metham, Yorkshire, by his marriage to Grace, a daughter of Thomas Pudsey, of Barford...
  
  , Jesuit, 1592
• Anthony Middleton
  Anthony Middleton
  Anthony Middleton was an English Roman Catholic Priest and martyr who was hung, drawn and quartered in 1590.-References:...
  
  , priest, 1590
• Robert Morton, priest, 1588
• Thomas Mudde, Cistercian, 1583
• John Munden, priest, 1584

• John Nelson
  John Nelson (martyr)
  John Nelson was an English Jesuit martyr who was executed during the reign of Elizabeth I.Nelson was from Skelton, York. He was nearing 40 when he left for Douai in 1573 for training as a priest. Two of his four brothers would later follow him there to become priests...
  
  , priest, 1577, was executed at Tynburn for denying the Queen's supremacy and refusing to take the oath.
• George Nichols, priest, 1589; beatified 1987
• John Norton, layman, 1600; beatified 1987
• John Nutter, priest, 1584
• Robert Nutter
  Robert Nutter
  Robert Nutter was an English Catholic martyr. He was beatified in 1987....
  
  , priest, 1600; beatified 1987

• Edward Oldcorne
  Edward Oldcorne
  Blessed Edward Oldcorne or Oldcorn alias Hall was an English Jesuit priest. He was known to people who knew of the Gunpowder Plot to destroy the Parliament of England and kill King James I, and, although his involvement is unclear, he was caught up in the subsequent investigation...
  
  , Jesuit priest, 1561
• Edward Osbaldeston
  Edward Osbaldeston
  Blessed Edward Osbaldeston was an English martyr, born about 1560. Не was hanged, drawn, and quartered at York, 16 November 1594.Son of Thomas Osbaldeston, and nephew of Edward Osbaldeston, of Osbaldeston Hall, near Blackburn, Lancashire, he went to the English College of Douai, then at Reims,...
  
  , priest, 1594; beatified 1987

• Antony Page, priest, 1593; beatified 1987
• Thomas Palasor
  Thomas Palasor
  Thomas Palasor was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:Palasor was born at Ellerton-on-Swale, parish of Catterick, North Riding of Yorkshire. He arrived at Reims on 24 July 1592, and set out for the English College, Valladolid on 24 August 1592...
  
  , priest, 1600; beatified 1987
• William Patenson
  William Patenson
  William Patenson was an English Roman Catholic priest, and Catholic martyr. He was beatified in 1929.-Life:...
  
  , priest, 1592
• John Payne, priest, 1582; canonized 1970
• Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland
  Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland
  Blessed Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland, 1st Baron Percy, KG , led the Rising of the North and was executed for treason. He was later beatified by the Catholic Church.-Early life:...
  
  , layman, 1572; beatified 1895
• William Pike, layman, 1591; beatified 1987
• Thomas Pilchard
  Thomas Pilchard
  Thomas Pilchard was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:...
  
  , priest, 1587; beatified 1987
• Polydore Plasden
  Polydore Plasden
  St Polydore Plasden, one of the Catholic Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. A native of London, he studied for the priesthood at Rheims and Rome and was ordained in 1586 before being sent back to England soon after....
  
  , priest, 1591; canonized 1970
• Thomas Plumtree, priest, 1570
• Edward Pole, priest, 1585
• Thomas Pormort
  Thomas Pormort
  Thomas Pormort was an English Roman Catholic priest. He was beatified in 1987.-Life:He was probably related to the family of Pormort of Great Grimsby and Saltfletby, Lincolnshire...
  
  , priest, 1592; beatified 1987
• Humphrey Pritchard, layman, 1589; beatified 1987

• Alexander Rawlins
  Alexander Rawlins
  -Life:He was born in Worcestershire. After imprisonment for his Catholic beliefs, he went to Reims for seminary training and was ordained priest. He arrived in England as a missioner in April 1590 with Edmund Gennings and Hugh Sewell....
  
  , priest, 1595
• John Rigby, layman, 1600; canonized 1970
• Christopher Robinson
  Christopher Robinson (priest)
  Christopher Robinson was an English Catholic priest and martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:Robinson was born at Woodside, near Westward, Cumberland. He was admitted to the English College at Reims in 1589, and was ordained priest and sent on the English mission in 1592...
  
  , priest, 1597; beatified 1987
• John Robinson, priest, 1588
• John Roche
  John Roche (martyr)
  Blessed John Roche was a Catholic martyr, born in Ireland, who died in London, England in 1588. Usually shown in working-class Elizabethan dress and holding an oar or a miniature boat, he is the patron of sailors, mariners and boatmen.He helped Saint Margaret Ward arrange the escape of Father...
  
  , priest, 1588
• Stephen Rowsham
  Stephen Rowsham
  Stephen Rowsham was an English Catholic priest, executed on 3 April 1587. He is a Catholic martyr, and was beatified by Pope John Paul in 1987.-Life:A native of Oxfordshire, born c. 1555, he entered Oriel College, Oxford, in 1572...
  
  , priest, 1587; beatified 1987

• John Sandys
  John Sandys
  John Sandys was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:He studied at the University of Oxford, and Douai College....
  
  , priest, 1586; beatified 1987
• Montford Scott
  Montford Scott
  Montford Scott was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:...
  
  , priest, 1591; beatified 1987
• Thomas Sedgwick
  Thomas Sedgwick
  Thomas Sedgwick was an English Roman Catholic theologian. An unfriendly hand in 1562 describes him as "learned but not very wise"....
  
  , priest, 1573
• Richard Sergeant
  Richard Sergeant
  Richard Sergeant was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:...
  
  , priest, 1586; beatified 1987
• Martin Sherson
  Martin Sherson
  Martin Sherson was an English Roman Catholic priest.A native of Yorkshire, he matriculated at St. John's College, Oxford in 1575 at the age of twelve, becoming "a poor scholar of George Mannering who taught Rhetoric there"...
  
  , priest, 1587
• John Shert
  John Shert
  Blessed John Shert was an English Catholic priest and martyr, who was executed during the reign of Elizabeth I.He was born at Shert Hall near Macclesfield, Cheshire, and received his degree from Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1566...
  
  , priest, 1582
• Ralph Sherwin
  Ralph Sherwin
  Saint Ralph Sherwin was an English Roman Catholic martyr and saint. He was born at Rodsley, Derbyshire, and was educated at Eton College...
  
  , priest, 1581; canonized 1970
• Thomas Sherwood, layman, 1579; beatified 1886, had been a student at a seminary in the Low Countries at Douai, and was arrested on suspicion. When the question was put to him, he answered that he believed the pope rather than the queen was pre-eminent. He was therefore tortured (in order to get him to give the location where he heard Mass), and then hanged, cut down while still alive, disembowelled and then dismembered.
• Richard Simpson
  Richard Simpson (martyr)
  Blessed Richard Simpson was an English priest, martyred in the reign of Elizabeth I. He was born in Well, in Yorkshire. Little is known of his early life, but according to Challoner's Memoirs of Missionary Priests, he became an Anglican priest, but later converted to Catholicism...
  
  , priest, 1588; beatified 1987
• Peter Snow
  Peter Snow (priest)
  Peter Snow was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, along with Ralph Grimston who died with him, beatified in 1987. Liturgical celebration is on 15 June.-Life:...
  
  , priest, 1598; beatified 1987
• Robert Southwell, Jesuit priest, 1595; canonized 1970
• William Spenser
  William Spenser
  William Spenser was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:...
  
  , priest, 1589; beatified 1987
• Thomas Sprott
  Thomas Sprott
  Blessed Thomas Sprott, also spelled Thomas Spratt, was an English martyr.-Biography:He was born at Skelsmergh, near Kendal in Westmorland; suffered at Lincoln with Thomas Hunt on 11 July 1600...
  
  , priest, 1600; beatified 1987
• James Stonnes
  James Stonnes
  James Stonnes was an English Catholic priest, active in northern England.-Life:He was ordained at Durham by Bishop Tunstall in 1539. After Elizabeth I's accession he never entered a church, but wandered about Durham and Yorkshire, with occasional visits to Lancashire...
  
  , priest, 1585
• John Story
  John Story
  Blessed John Story , English Roman Catholic martyr, was born the son of Nicholas Story of Salisbury and educated at Hinxsey Hall, University of Oxford, where he became lecturer on civil law in 1535, being made later principal of Broadgates Hall, afterwards Pembroke College.He appears to have...
  
  , Chancellor to Bishop Bonner, 1571
• Edward Stransham
  Edward Stransham
  Edward Stransham was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:...
  
  , priest, 1586
• Robert Sutton, priest, 1587; beatified 1987
• Edmund Sykes
  Edmund Sykes
  Edmund Sykes was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:...
  
  , priest, 1587; beatified 1987

• John Talbot, layman, 1600; beatified 1987
• Hugh Taylor
  Hugh Taylor (priest)
  Hugh Taylor was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:...
  
  , priest, 1585; beatified 1987
• Gabriel Thimelby, priest, 1587
• Richard Thirkeld
  Richard Thirkeld
  Richard Thirkeld was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr.-Life:Thirkeld was born at Coniscliffe, Durham, England....
  
  , priest, 1583
• James Thompson
  James Thompson (martyr)
  Blessed James Thompson, also known as James pierce, was a Catholic priest and martyr of York, hanged during the reign of Elizabeth II.Thompson arrived at in Rheims on September 19, 1580. In the following May, he and a Nicholas Fox were admitted to Soissons and made priests within 5747654467897...
  
  , priest, York, 1582
• John Thompson, Jesuit
• William Thomson, priest, 1586; beatified 1987
• Robert Thorpe
  Robert Thorpe (priest)
  Robert Thorpe was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:...
  
  , priest, 1591; beatified 1987
• Edward Thwing, priest, 1600; beatified 1987

• Lawrence Vaux, priest, 1585

• Thomas Watkinson, layman, 1591; beatified 1987
• Roger Wakeman, priest, 1584
• Sir Edward Waldegrave, 1561
• Henry Walpole
  Henry Walpole
  -Early life:He was born at Docking, Norfolk, in 1558, the eldest son of Christopher Walpole, by Margery, heiress of Richard Beckham of Narford, and was educated at Norwich School, Peterhouse, Cambridge, and Gray's Inn. Converted to Roman Catholicism by the death of Saint Edmund Campion, he went by...
  
  , Jesuit priest, 1595; canonized 1970; he had been present at the execution of Edward Campion, and his clothes were sprinkled with Campion's blood at the execution. After his witness, Walpole himself then gave up his law practice and followed in Campion's footsteps. He was later executed at York in 1595.
• Edward Waterson
  Edward Waterson
  Edward Waterson was an English Catholic priest and martyr. He served the hidden Catholics in England during the reign of Elizabeth I. Edward was arrested in 1593 and executed at Newcastle upon Tyne. He was beatified in 1929....
  
  , priest, 1593
• Margaret Ward
  Margaret Ward
  Saint Margaret Ward was an English Catholic martyr who was executed during the reign of Elizabeth I for helping a priest to escape from prison. Her date of birth is unknown, but she was born in Congleton, Cheshire....
  
  , laywoman, 1588; canonized 1970, was hanged at Tynburn for helping a priest to escape from prison.
• William Way
  William Way
  The Venerable William Way was an English Catholic priest and martyr executed under Elizabeth I after the Protestant Reformation. He is venerated in the Roman Catholic Church.-Early life and education:...
  
   (alias May or Flower), priest, 1588
• Henry Webley, layman, 1588; beatified 1987
• Swithin Wells, layman, 1591, canonized 1970
• Richard Weston
  Richard Weston
  Richard Weston was an English botanist.Weston was originally a thread-hosier of Leicester, but in some of his anonymous works describes himself as "a country gentleman". In 1773 he was living at Kensington Gore, but later was living at Leicester where he was secretary of the local agricultural...
  
  , Jesuit
• Christopher Wharton
  Christopher Wharton
  Christopher Wharton was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:...
  
  , priest, 1600; beatified 1987
• Eustace White
  Eustace White
  St Eustace White, one of the Catholic Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. Born in Louth, Lincolnshire in 1559, he was a convert to Catholicism who travelled to Europe to study for the priesthood. He was ordained, probably at the Venerable English College, Rome in 1588, and returned to England for...
  
  , priest, 1591; canonized 1970
• Robert Wilcox
  Robert Wilcox (martyr)
  Blessed Robert Wilcox was a Catholic martyr in Elizabethan England. He was born in Chester, England in 1558 and entered the seminary at Rheims when he was twenty-five years old...
  
  , priest, 1588
• Richard Williams, priest, 1592
• Thomas Wood, priest, 1588
• John Woodcock
  John Woodcock (martyr)
  John Woodcock was born in Leyland, Lancashire, in England. His parents, Thomas and Dorothy Woodcock, the latter a Catholic, were of the middle class...
  
  , Franciscan, 1646
• Nicholas Woodfen, priest, 1586; beatified 1987

• Richard Yaxley, priest, 1589; beatified 1987

1601 - 1680

• Placid Aldham (Adelham), Benedictine, 1679
• William Allison, priest, 1681
• John Almond
  John Almond
  John Almond was a Cistercian monk. He is commemorated as a Confessor of the Faith in the Roman Catholic Church, and his name has been included in the supplementary process of the English Martyrs....
  
  , priest, 1612; canonized 1970
• Edmund Arrowsmith
  Edmund Arrowsmith
  Saint Edmund Arrowsmith SJ is one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. The main source of information on St Edmund is a contemporary account written by an eyewitness and published a short time after his death...
  
  , Jesuit priest, 1628; canonized 1970
• Ralph Ashley
  Ralph Ashley
  Blessed Ralph Ashley was an English Jesuit lay-brother who became involved with the aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:...
  
  , Jesuit priest, 1606
• William Atkins
  William Atkins (Jesuit)
  William Atkins , was an English Jesuit.Atkins was born in Cambridgeshire in 1601. He became a secular priest, and was sent on the English mission in 1631. Four years later he entered the Society of Jesus. In 1653 he was chosen rector of the ‘College of St. Aloysius,’ which at that period comprised...
  
  , Jesuit, 1681
• Nicholas Atkinson
  Nicholas Atkinson
  Nicholas Atkinson was an English Catholic priest and martyr.According to the historian Charles Dodd he was executed in York in 1610, in the reign of James I. The Catholic Encyclopedia thinks that it was probable that Dodd had confused him with another Catholic martyr, Thomas Atkinson, although...
  
  , priest, 1610
• Thomas Atkinson
  Thomas Atkinson (priest)
  Thomas Atkinson was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:He was born in the East Riding of Yorkshire, was ordained priest at Reims, and returned to England in 1588....
  
  , priest, 1616; beatified 1987

• Edward Bamber
  Edward Bamber
  Edward Bamber was an English Roman Catholic priest. He was beatified in 1987.-Life:...
  
  , priest, 1646; beatified 1987
• Mark Barkworth
  Mark Barkworth
  Mark Barkworth was a Catholic priest and martyr .He was born about 1572 at Searby in Lincolnshire. He studied for a time at Oxford, though no record remains of his stay there. He was received into the Catholic Church at Douai in 1593, by Father George, a Flemish Jesuit and entered the College...
  
  , Benedictine, 1601
• Ambrose Edward Barlow, Benedictine priest, 1641; canonized 1970
• Thomas Bedingfeld, Jesuit, 1678
• Arthur Bell, Franciscan priest, 1643; beatified 1987
• William Bentney
  William Bentney
  William Bentney, alias Bennet, was an English Jesuit priest during the 17th century when English Roman Catholics were under severe penalties....
  
   (alias Bennet), Jesuit, 1692
• Richard Birkett, priest, 1680
• Thomas Blount, priest, 1647
• Richard Bradley, Jesuit, 1645
• Matthew Brazier (alias Grimes), Jesuit, 1650
• James Brown
  James Brown
  James Joseph Brown was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist. He is the originator of Funk and is recognized as a major figure in the 20th century popular music for both his vocals and dancing. He has been referred to as "The Godfather of Soul," "Mr...
  
  , Benedictine, 1645
• Thomas Bullaker
  Thomas Bullaker
  Thomas Bullaker was an English Franciscan Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:...
  
  , Franciscan priest, 1642; beatified 1987

• Roger Cadwallador
  Roger Cadwallador
  Roger Cadwallador was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:...
  
  , priest, 1610; beatified 1987
• Edmund Cannon, priest, 1651
• Brian Cansfield, Jesuit, 1643
• Edmund Catheriok, priest, 1642
• Walter Coleman, Franciscan, 1645
• Benedict Constable, Benedictine, 1683
• Ralph Corbie
  Ralph Corbie
  Ralph Corbie was an Irish Jesuit. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:...
  
  , Jesuit, 1644
• Robert Cox, Benedictine, 1650

• Christopher Dixon, Augustinian, 1616
• Robert Drury
  Robert Drury (priest)
  Robert Drury was an English Roman Catholic priest, executed for treason. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:He was born of a Buckinghamshire family and was received into the English College at Reims, 1 April 1588...
  
  , priest, 1607; beatified 1987
• James Duckett
  James Duckett
  James Duckett was an English Catholic layman and martyr .Born at Gilfortrigs in the parish of Skelsmergh in Westmorland at an unknown date, he became a bookseller and publisher in London. Brought up a Protestant, he was lent a Catholic book by a friend when serving his apprenticeship in London and...
  
  , layman, 1601; beatified 1929
• John Duckett, priest, 1644
• Thomas Dyer
  Thomas Dyer
  Thomas Dyer served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois for the Democratic Party. He also served as the founding president of the Chicago Board of Trade.-External links:* *...
  
  , Benedictine, c.1618-1630

• Robert Edmonds, Benedictine, 1615
• Philip Evans
  Philip Evans and John Lloyd
  Saints Philip Evans and John Lloyd were Welsh Roman Catholic priests, who died for their faith. They are both among the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.-Father Philip Evans:...
  
  , Jesuit priest, 1679; canonized 1970

• John Fenwick
  John Fenwick (Jesuit)
  Blessed John Fenwick, real surname Caldwell was an English Jesuit, executed at the time of the fabricated Popish Plot. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929 by Pope Pius XI.-Life:...
  
  , Jesuit priest, 1679
• Roger Filcock, priest, 1601; beatified 1987
• Matthew Flathers, priest, 1608; beatified 1987
• Thomas Foster (Forster), Jesuit, 1648
• Andrew Fryer (alias Herne or Richmond), priest, 1651

• Henry Garnet
  Henry Garnet
  Henry Garnet , sometimes Henry Garnett, was a Jesuit priest executed for his complicity in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Born in Derbyshire, he was educated in Nottingham and later at Winchester College, before moving to London in 1571 to work for a publisher...
  
  , Jesuit, 1606
• Thomas Garnet
  Thomas Garnet
  Saint Thomas Garnet was a Jesuit priest. He is the protomartyr of Saint Omer and therefore of Stonyhurst College. He was executed at Tyburn and is one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.-Thomas Garnet's family:Thomas Garnet was born into a prominent family...
  
  , Jesuit priest, 1608; canonized 1970
• John Gavan
  John Gavan
  Blessed John Gavan was an English Jesuit and victim of the Popish Plot, wrongfully executed for conspiracy to murder Charles II. He was beatified in 1929.- Life :...
  
  , Jesuit priest, 1679
• John Gerard (Jesuit), priest, Jesuit, 1637
• George Gervase
  George Gervase
  Blessed George Gervase was an English Benedictine priest who worked as a missionary in England during the period of recusancy. He was martyred at Tyburn....
  
  , Benedictine, 1608
• John Goodman (Jesuit), priest, 1645
• Hugh Green
  Hugh Green (martyr)
  Hugh Green was an English Catholic priest who was beatified by the Catholic Church in 1929. He was also known as Ferdinand Brooks or Ferdinand Brown....
  
  , priest, 1642
• Robert Grissold
  Robert Grissold
  Blessed Robert Grissold was an accomplice of John Sugar, Roman Catholic priest co-martyred at Warwick in 1604. His name is also given as Greswold or Griswold. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987 by Pope John Paul II.-External links:*...
  
  , layman, 1604; beatified 1987

• William Harcourt, Jesuit, 1679
• James Harrison
  James Harrison (priest)
  James Harrison was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr.-Life:He studied at the English College at Reims, and was ordained there in September, 1583...
  
  , priest, 1602
• Henry Heath, Franciscan priest, 1643; beatified 1987
• Ildephonse Hesketh (alias William Hanson), Benedictine, 1644
• Thomas Holland
  Thomas Holland (Jesuit)
  Thomas Holland was an English Jesuit priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929 .-Life:...
  
  , priest, 1642
• Thurstan Hunt, priest, 1601; beatified 1987

• William Ireland, Jesuit priest, 1679

• Thomas Jennison, Jesuit, 1679

• John Kemble
  John Kemble (martyr)
  Saint John Kemble was an English Roman Catholic martyr. He was one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.-Early years and ordination:...
  
  , priest, 1679; canonized 1970
• David Joseph Kemys (Kemeys), monk, 1680

• Richard Lacey
  Richard Lacey
  Air Vice-Marshal Richard Howard Lacey, CBE was the Commander of British Forces Cyprus and former UK National Military Representative to the NATO HQ at SHAPE in Belgium.-Flying career:...
  
  , Jesuit, 1680
• Francis Levison, Franciscan, 1679
• David Lewis
  David Lewis (martyr)
  David Lewis was a Catholic priest and martyr. Lewis was canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1970 as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales and is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church.- Early life :...
  
  , Jesuit priest, 1679; canonized 1970
• Anne Line
  Anne Line
  Saint Anne Line was an English martyr who was executed during the reign of Elizabeth I for harbouring a priest. She was born in 1567, the second daughter of Heigham, Esq., of Essex, a strict Calvinist, and was, together with her brother William, disinherited for converting to Catholicism...
  
  , laywoman, 1601; canonized 1970, an aged and infirm widow was first flogged and then hanged at Tyburn for having entertained a priest.
• John Lloyd, priest, 1679; canonized 1970
• William Lloyd, priest, 1679
• John Lockwood
  John Lockwood (priest)
  John Lockwood was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:...
  
  , priest, 1642

• Laurence Mabbs, Benedictine, 1641
• Charles Mahoney
  Charles Mahoney
  Charles Mahoney was an Irish Franciscan. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:The documentary evidence is scanty...
  
   (alias Meehan), Franciscan priest, 1679; beatified 1987
• Thomas Maxfield
  Thomas Maxfield
  Thomas Maxfield was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:...
  
  , priest, 1616
• Edward Mico, Jesuit, 1678
• Robert Middleton, priest, 1601; beatified 1987
• William Middleton (alias Heathcote), Benedictine, 1644
• Thomas Molineux, Jesuit, 1681
• Edward Morgan
  Edward Morgan (priest)
  Edward Morgan was a Welsh Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr.-Life:...
  
  , priest, 1642
• Henry Morse
  Henry Morse
  Saint Henry Morse was one of the Catholic Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.-Biography:Born a Protestant in 1595 at Brome, Suffolk, England, Morse converted to Roman Catholicism at Douai, 5 June, 1614, after various journeys was ordained at Rome, and left for the mission, 19 June, 1624...
  
  , Jesuit priest, 1645; canonized 1970

• George Napper
  George Napper
  George Napper was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929 by Pope Pius XI.-Life:George Napper a son of Edward Napper George Napper (Napier) (born at Holywell manor, Oxford, 1550; executed at Oxford 9 November 1610) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a...
  
  , priest, Oxford, 1610, beatified 1929
• Francis Nevil, Jesuit, 1679
• Richard Newport, priest, 1612

• Nicholas Owen, Jesuit lay-brother, 1606; canonized 1970

• Francis Page, Jesuit, 1602
• Placid Peto, Benedictine, 1642–1643
• John Pibush
  John Pibush
  John Pibush was an English Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:...
  
  , priest, 1601
• Thomas Pickering, Benedictine, 1679
• William Plessington, priest, 1679; canonized 1970
• Nicholas Postgate
  Nicholas Postgate
  Blessed Nicholas Postgate was an English, Catholic priest. He is one of the 85 English Catholic Martyrs of England and Wales, beatified by Blessed Pope John Paul II, in November 1987....
  
  , priest, 1679; beatified 1987
• Philip Powel, Benedictine, 1646
• Thomas Preston
  Thomas Preston (monk)
  Thomas Preston was a Benedictine monk.He studied in the English College in Rome and became a Benedictine at Monte Cassino and was sent to England on mission....
  
   (alias Roger Widdrington), Benedictine, 1640

• Francis Quashet, priest, 1642

• Thomas Reynolds (alias Green), priest, 1642
• William Richardson
  William Richardson (martyr)
  Blessed William Richardson was a sixteenth-century Roman Catholic English martyr.Richardson was born in the village of Wales, South Yorkshire. He studied for the Roman Catholic priesthood at seminaries in Valladolid and then Seville, both in Spain. He was ordained sometime between 1594 and 1600...
  
  , priest, 1603
• John Roberts, Benedictine priest, 1610; canonized 1970
• Alban Bartholomew Roe, Benedictine priest, 1642; canonized 1970
• William Scot (Maurus Scott) 1612
• Thomas Somers, priest, 1610
• William Southerne
  William Southerne
  William Southerne was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:...
  
  , priest, 1618; beatified 1987
• Saint John Southworth
  Saint John Southworth
  John Southworth was an English Catholic martyr. He is one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.- History:...
  
  , priest, 1654; canonized 1970
• John Sugar
  John Sugar
  John Sugar was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:...
  
  , priest, 1604; beatified 1987

• John Thulis
  John Thulis
  John Thulis was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:...
  
  , priest, 1616; beatified 1987
• Thomas Thwing
  Thomas Thwing
  Blessed Thomas Thwing was an English Catholic priest and martyr.Born at Heworth Hall, near York, in 1635, he was the son of George Thwing, Esquire, of Kilton Castle, Brotton, and Heworth Hall, and was the nephew of the Catholic martyr Edward Thwing. His mother was Anne, sister of the Sir Thomas...
  
  , priest, 1679
• Thomas Tichborne
  Thomas Tichborne
  Thomas Tichborne was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:...
  
  , priest, 1602
• Cuthbert Tunstall
  Cuthbert Tunstall
  Cuthbert Tunstall was an English Scholastic, church leader, diplomat, administrator and royal adviser...
  
  , priest, 1616
• Thomas Tunstall
  Thomas Tunstall
  Thomas Tunstall was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:He was descended from the Tunstalls of Thurland, a Lancashire family who afterwards settled in Yorkshire...
  
  , priest, 1616
• Anthony Turner
  Anthony Turner (martyr)
  Blessed Anthony Turner was an English Jesuit and victim of the Popish Plot, executed for conspiracy to murder Charles II. He was beatified in 1929.- LIfe :...
  
  , Jesuit, 1679
• Edward Turner, Jesuit, 1681

• John Wall, Franciscan priest, 1679; canonized 1970
• William Ward
  William Ward (priest)
  William Ward was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:...
  
  , Saint, priest, 1641
• Robert Watkinson, priest, 1602
• Thomas Whitaker, priest, 1646; beatified 1987
• Thomas Whitbread
  Thomas Whitbread
  Blessed Thomas Whitbread was an English Jesuit missionary, wrongly convicted of conspiracy to murder Charles II of England. He was beatified in 1929.-Life:...
  
  , Jesuit, 1679
• Edward Wilkes, priest, 1642
• John Woodcock, Franciscan priest, 1646; beatified 1987
• Thomas Woodhouse
  Thomas Woodhouse
  The Blessed Thomas Woodhouse was an English Catholic priest and martyr at Tyburn on 19 June 1573, being disembowelled alive.-Biography:Ordained in Queen Mary Tudor's reign, he was a Lincolnshire rector for under a year, and in 1560 acted as a private tutor in Wales.On 14 May 1561, he was committed...
  
  , priest, 1572
• Roger Wrenno, layman, 1616; beatified 1987
• Peter Wright
  Peter Wright (martyr)
  Blessed Peter Wright was a Catholic priest, Jesuit, and martyr, born in Slipton, Northamptonshire, England.-Biography:In older literature he was presumed to be a Protestant, but more recently record of him has been found at Slipton in 1613 as a Recusant, along with his mother, brother and sister...
  
  , Jesuit, 1651

No precise date of martyrdom available

• Richard Adams, priest
• Thomas Belser, priest
• William Bannersley, priest
• Humphrey Browne, Jesuit
• George ab Alba Rose, Augustinian
• James Gerard, priest
• John Hudd, Jesuit
• Thomas Moyne
• John Pearson, priest
• John Penketh, Jesuit
• Cuthbert Prescott, Jesuit
• Ignatius Price, Jesuit
• Charles Pritchard, Jesuit
• Thomas Ridall, priest
• John Rivers (alias Austen Abbot), priest
• Francis Simeon, Jesuit
• James Swarbrick, priest
• Charles Thursley, Jesuit
• Thomas Vaughan, priest
• John Young, priest
• Boniface Wilford, Benedictine