2007-12-20 22:58:56 · 6 answers · asked by becca w 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The correct answer to this question is “YES”.
I have not been able to track down a complete list of those burned at the stake during the reign of Elizabeth I. But here are a couple of examples: -
[1] In 1575, twenty-seven German / Flemish Anabaptists were arrested in London. They were accused of a series of heresies. At trial, eleven of them were convicted and condemned to be burned at the stake. Queen Elizabeth then commuted the sentences of nine of those condemned, banishing them instead of executing them. But the last two, John Wielmacker (also known as Jan Pieterss) and Hendrick Ter Woort, were burned at the stake at Smithfield on July 22nd, 1575. See links 1(a) and 1(b) below for proof.
[2] Some time between 1595 and 1597 (the date is cut off in the source), Isabel Cockie was condemned as a witch and burned at the stake. Most condemned witches in Elizabeth’s reign were hanged. But a few were burned at the stake, as in this case. See link 2 below for proof.
Further notes: -
Burning at the stake was beginning to be viewed with distaste, as an unnecessarily barbaric form of execution, by the end of Elizabeth’s reign. But it remained a legal form of punishment for heresy for some time thereafter. In 1612, Edward Wightman became the last person to be executed for heresy in England by burning at the stake. He met his death at Lichfield on April 11th, 1612. His crime? Preaching the Baptist faith. See link 3 below.
However, burning at the stake remained a legal form of execution for women (not for men) convicted of treason and some other crimes, up until 1790. (Traitorous men were being hung, drawn and quartered ... but not burned.) As far as I can discover, the last person to have been burned at the stake in England was Catherine Murphy, a counterfeiter, who was executed in 1789. Note, however, that for many years prior to that, the women condemned to die at the stake in England had been quietly strangled beforehand, so that only their already dead bodies went to the stake.
2007-12-22 08:55:07 · answer #1 · answered by Gromm's Ghost 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Elizabeth did not burn people at the stake like her sister Mary.
"In England, at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth I, a wickerwork dummy of the Pope was filled with live cats, carried with mock solemnity through the streets and flung into a huge bonfire. Protestants declared the cats' shrieks to be "the language of the devils within the body of the Holy Father.""
2007-12-21 07:15:52 · answer #2 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure people were burned at the stake somewhere.I do know that traitors were still hang drawn and quartered, Anthony babington was involved in a plot to put Mary queen of Scots on the throne, he was arrested and with his allies executed in this way, first he was hung and cut down while still alive, then his belly was ripped open and his insides burnt before his eyes, only when he was beheaded and quartered did he finally die, the queen who witnessed this horrible act decreed that in future prisoners must left hanging till dead.
2007-12-21 07:27:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, lots. But very few in England. France and Spain were in the Inquisition at the time and there were lots of heritics burned.
England didnt sanction any of the Inquisition so if there were any burnings they were political and Old Lizzy probably objected.
2007-12-21 07:59:13 · answer #4 · answered by Stan W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No burning, just hanging, being drawn and quartered and disemboweled.
2007-12-21 08:05:31 · answer #5 · answered by staisil 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Plenty. and torture and beheading
2007-12-21 11:46:42 · answer #6 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋