Thomas Welbourne
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Thomas Welbourne (executed at York
York
York is a walled city, situated at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. The city has a rich heritage and has provided the backdrop to major political events throughout much of its two millennia of existence...

, 1 August 1605) was an English Roman Catholic teacher. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.

Life

All that is known about Welbourne comes from details collected 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,...

, in early Catholic catalogues of martyrs:
"Thomas Welbourne was a school-master, a native of Kitenbushel in Yorkshire; and John Fulthering was a layman of the same county, who being zealous Catholics, and industrious in exhorting some of their neighbours to embrace the Catholic faith, were upon that account arraigned and condemned to suffer as in cases of high treason" (II, 12).


Neither name occurs in Peacock
Edward Peacock (antiquary)
Edward Peacock was an English antiquarian and novelist.-Biography:Edward Peacock, the only son of the agriculturalist Edward S. Peacock , of Bottesford Manor, near Brigg, Lincolnshire, was educated by private tutors. Influenced by John Henry Newman, he converted to Catholicism as a young man...

's Yorkshire Catholics in 1604.
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