Elizabeth Barton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "However, all that is known regarding her confession comes from Thomas Cromwell, his agents, and other sources on the side of the Crown. Friar John Laurence of the Observant Friars of Greenwich gave evidence against the Maid and fellow Observants,
Friars Hugh Rich and Richard Risby, and then requested to be named to one of the posts left vacant due to their imprisonment.[4] She, along with five of her chief supporters, four of whom were priests, were executed for treason and hanged at Tyburn.[1] She was buried at Greyfriars Church in Newgate Street, but her head was put on a spike on London Bridge, the only woman in history accorded that dishonour"
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