Anderton, Venerable Robert

Anderton, Venerable Robert
Anderton, Venerable Robert
English priest and friend of William Marsden. The two were shipwrecked, whereupon they were arrested for being priests coming into England from abroad, and tried on the 'bloody question.' They were hanged, drawn, and quartered in 1586

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