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[angevin2]

It was about this time that a memorable Dumb Crammer and one of Henry VIII's wives called Fatimer, who had survived him, got burnt alive at Oxford, while trying to light a candle in the Martyr's memorial there: it was a new candle which they had invented and which they said could never be put out.

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[gillo]

I caught a bus by the Martyrs Memorial this afternoon. Outside the Ashmolean they have a row of pictures of White Middle Aged Men with the quotations from Latimer, Cranmer et al on their foreheads. But not, sadly, your Sellar and Yeatman quotation, which is far better.

[tree_and_leaf]

Gosh, thank you, this has been bothering me all this evening (esp during a sermon on Ridley and Latimer and the Unhappy Divisions in the Church, which was quite good if depressing, but somehow failed to live up to Sellars and Yeatman - but then what does?)

[berkeleyfarm]

LOL

(what's the reference? after a year of Church History I want moar)

[angevin2]

Sellar and Yeatman, 1066 and All That. One of my favorite books ever.