Publications
Mystery of the Two Martyrs: Where are the firebacks now?, by Crispin Paine, published August 2013 in Sussex Past & Present (no. 130, article, pp.6-7, ISSN: 1357-7417) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/500475] & S.A.S. library View Online
Preview:All museums contain mysteries or objects that are merely puzzling. This splendid cast-iron fireback, in the collection of the Society at Anne of Cleves House, is one.
Known as the 'The Sussex Martyrs fireback', it was part of the Every bequest; 1,250 objects left to the Society by ironmaster Alderman John Every in the early 1940s. On the back is inscribed "Sussex Martyrs / Burwash / cast August 1908 / Charles Dawson FSA."
Known as the 'The Sussex Martyrs fireback', it was part of the Every bequest; 1,250 objects left to the Society by ironmaster Alderman John Every in the early 1940s. On the back is inscribed "Sussex Martyrs / Burwash / cast August 1908 / Charles Dawson FSA."