Survey

The following 60 names are marked on the Crown Office list for the Parliament of October 1553: ‘They which stood for the true religion are signed thus’.

Nicholas Adams alias Bodrugan William Hunston
William Badger Sir Henry Hussey
Robert Beverley Thomas Jekyn
Richard Blackwell Edward Leighton
John Blundell John Leweston
Sir Edward Bray Simon Linch
(Sir) Edmund Brydges John Lyttelton
Sir Peter Carew Thomas Markham
Matthew Colthurst Thomas Marrow
Humphrey Coningsby John Marshe
Sir Thomas Cornwallis (Sir) Walter Mildmay
Henry Creed William More II
(Sir) Thomas Dyer John Nethermill
Robert Eyre I Henry Peckham
Thomas Farnham (Sir) John Perrot
Robert Farrar Owen Reynolds
William Fitzwilliam George Rithe
Sir Francis Fleming Sir Edward Rogers
Richard Fulmerston (Sir) Thomas Russell
Thomas Gawdy I Robert Saunders
Thomas Gawdy II Ralph Skinner
John Gayer William Smethwick
John Godwin I Henry Stafford
Francis Goldsmith Sir Giles Strangways II
John Gosnold Clement Throckmorton
William Hawkins John Throckmorton I1Also marked ‘With the last Act and against the first’.
George Heneage (Sir) Nicholas Throckmorton
Thomas Heneage Charles Vaughan
(Sir) John Hercy John Walpole
Sir Ralph Hopton Sir Edward Warner

 

Initially the following were also noted as standing ‘for the true religion’ but the marks were later struck through.

Edward Chamberlain II

Sir John Horsey (Sir)

Thomas Smith I

Notes
  • 1. Also marked ‘With the last Act and against the first’.