26 March 1555 A.D. William Hunter, Reformation Anglican, burned at the stake for Bible reading.
26 March 1555 A.D. William Hunter, Reformation Anglican, burned at the stake for Bible reading. (Check records, it may be 27 March.) Dr. Rusten tells the story. Rusten, E. Michael and Rusten, Sharon. The One Year Christian History . Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2003. Available at: http://www.amazon.com/The-Year-Christian-History-Books/dp/0842355073/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1393302630&sr=8-1&keywords=rusten+church+history William Hunter went to London in 1553 to apprentice as a silk weaver. Edward VI, the English Josiah, died that year. In the same year of 1553, Mary 1, the English Jezebel, acceded the throne. Mary was a staunch Anglo-Italian, seeking Anglicanism 1.0 (full communion with Rome with its doctrines), seeking reversals of the Reformation brought about by her half-brother, Edward VI (Anglicanism 3.0 and 5.0), seeking to root out Protestant and Reformed heretics, and reinstituting the 1401 Parliamentary act of De Ha...