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The Sussex Martyrs; their examinations and cruel burnings in the time of Queen Mary; comprising the interesting personal narrative of Richard Woodman, by Mark Antony Lower, M.A., published 1851 (iv + 77 pp., Lewes: Baxter and Son) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries   View Online

The Martyrs of Chichester, by Richard Simpson, published 1857 (article) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9320]

Richard Woodman, by Mark Antony Lower, published 1865 in The Worthies of Sussex (pp.138-147) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 3208][Lib 3233][Lib 3304] & The Keep [LIB/503515][LIB/504913]

Derick Carver, by Mark Antony Lower, published 1865 in The Worthies of Sussex (pp.200-202) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 3208][Lib 3233][Lib 3304] & The Keep [LIB/503515][LIB/504913]

John Maynard, by Mark Antony Lower, published 1865 in The Worthies of Sussex (pp.234-235) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 3208][Lib 3233][Lib 3304] & The Keep [LIB/503515][LIB/504913]

Christian Names of Two Sussex Martyrs, by C. T. P. [Charles T. Phillips], published 1892 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 38, notes & queries, p.206) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2123] & The Keep [LIB/500256] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Derick Carver, by Walter C. Renshaw, published 1906 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 49, notes & queries, pp.170-171) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2134] & The Keep [LIB/500267] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The Ven Philip Howard Earl of Arundel 1557-1595 English Martyr Vol II, by John Hungerford Polen and William MacMahon, published 1919 accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 1915]

Three Sussex Heresy Trials, by C. E. Welch, published 1957 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 95, article, pp.59-70) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2180] & The Keep [LIB/500334] & S.A.S. library

The burial-place of St. Lewinna, by George R. Stephens, published 1959 in Mediaeval Studies (vol. 21, article, pp.303-312)

The only woman martyr associated with Sussex. Leofwynn of Bishopstone, also known as Lewinna or Leofwynn, lived in the seventh century.

Some Notes on the Family of George Gervase of Bosham, Martyr, by Timothy J. McCann, published 1975 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 113, article, pp.152-156) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 6177] & The Keep [LIB/500316] & S.A.S. library

A Martyr Descent, by Michael J. Burchall, published June 1978 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 3 no. 5, article, pp.137-140) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7967] & The Keep [LIB/501255] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

A family tree from John Morris 1490 - whose wife and son were burned at the stake for protestant belief. Article covers the years 1465 - 1973 in the parish of Heathfield, Buxted, Maresfield and Victoria Australia

Sussex Martyrs of the Reformation, by Edward T. Stoneham, published 1983 (booklet, 4th edition, Sussex Martyrs Commemoration Council) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14003] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Sussex Martyrs, by Mark Turnham Elvins, published 1 June 1983 (pamphlet, 24 pp., Catholic Truth Society, ISBN-10: 0851835422 & ISBN-13: 9780851835426) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8767] & West Sussex Libraries

Edmund Busby: Agricultural Labourer & Martyr, by Mrs. E. B. Newbold, published March 1987 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 7 no. 4, article, pp.150-151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10461] & The Keep [LIB/501259] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Edmund Busby was the sixth of eleven children born to William Busby and Mary Jones. He was executed for setting a fire, though he was innocent. Article covers the years 1804 - 1831 in the parish of East Preston

The Loseley list of 'Sussex Martyrs': a Commission of Enquiry into the fate of their Assets and the Development of the Sussex Protestant Martyrology, by A. S. Gratwick and Christopher Whittick, published 1995 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 133, article, pp.225-240) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13209] & The Keep [LIB/500288] & S.A.S. library

Thomas Ravensdale, Martyr, by Kathleen Benny, published September 1995 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 11 no. 7, article, pp.261-262) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14878] & The Keep [LIB/501263] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Thomas Ravensdale, a currier from Rye, was martyred at the stake at Mayfield on 24 September 1556.

Three Lewes Martyrs of 1557, by Roger Davey, published 2000 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 138, shorter article, pp.231-234) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14509] & The Keep [LIB/500298] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Flickering flames: the Morris martyrs of Lewes, by Susan Haines née Morris, published June 2001 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 14 no. 6, article, pp.202-204) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14881] & The Keep [LIB/508823] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The martyrdom and description of the descendants of Margery Morris and her son James who were burned at the stake in 1557 for opposing the Catholic Church. Margery was the Widow of John Morris and James had nine children.

The Sussex Martyrs, by Robert Armstrong, published 1 March 2002 (72 pp., Gaia Communications, ISBN-10: 0954233603 & ISBN-13: 9780954233600) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Richard Woodman - Ironmaster and Martyr, by Tim Cornish, published 2007 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 27, article, pp.11-17, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506574]   Download PDF

Just to the west of Warbleton church lived, in the 1550s, a bold and radical man called Richard Woodman who ran either a forge or a furnace at TQ 603176 (named 'Woodman's). 'Firm facts are short for this site . . The Woodman ascription is unproven: he was active at this time, for immigrants made charcoal for him in 1549 and 1550 . . but it is not known for certain where he worked'. His entry in Straker states that he owned Woodman's Furnace ('a very large bay, by tradition the site of Woodman's Furnace') and also that he owned or worked Steel Forge and Markly Furnace at Rushlake Green.

The Trials of The Rev. Robert Bingham, Curate of Maresfield, in Sussex, on A Charge of Sending an Incendiary Letter, and of Setting Fire to his Dwelling-House, Before The Lord Chief Baron, At Horsham, March 26th, 1811, by Adams, published 21 February 2012 (248 pp., Gale, Making of Modern Law, ISBN-10: 1275554105 & ISBN-13: 9781275554108)

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

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."

The Two Martyrs Fireback: Further comments, by Jeremy Hodgkinson, published December 2013 in Sussex Past & Present (no. 131, article, p.8, ISSN: 1357-7417) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/507923] & S.A.S. library   View Online

I also entertained unkind thoughts towards Charles Dawson when I was researching my book on firebacks, and was relieved to discover that the original casting of the martyrs fireback had not been one of his enterprises. Some further information about the Burwash example referred to by Reverend Egerton can be gleaned from an article by J T Balcomb in The Art Journal of November 1886.

The Two Martyrs Fireback: Further comments, by Dr Paul Quinn, published December 2013 in Sussex Past & Present (no. 131, article, p.8, ISSN: 1357-7417) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/507923] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Crispin Paine's fascinating discussion of the 'Sussex Martyrs' fireback in the August edition of Sussex Past & Present raises the intriguing possibility that the image on the fireback is based on two woodcuts found in the 1570 edition of Foxe's Acts and Monuments. The suggestion that the fireback is based upon the image of the martyrdom of Simon Miller and Elizabeth Cooper at Norwich is interesting but problematic.

John Stone: A Sussex Tyburn Victim, by Michael J. Burchall, published March 2014 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 21 no. 1, article, pp.20-22) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/508980]

On Wednesday 11 May 1715 a Sussex man named John STONE was executed by hanging at Tyburn, near modern day Marble Arch in West London. He had been brought there in one of the three carts from Newgate Prison along with seven other prisoners to suffer for various crimes committed in London and on the scaffold admitted that he had also stolen a silver tankard about two years previously for which David WILFORD had been tried. The carts had been accompanied by the Ordinary of Newgate who, after prayers, the recitation of the Creed and the Lord's Prayer, watched as the carts were drawn away from under the six condemned men and one woman and they were left to die by slow strangulation.

Two Marian Martyrs - not in Chichester, by M. J. Leppard, published April 2014 in Sussex Past & Present (no. 132, article, p.11, ISSN: 1357-7417) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/507923] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The comments on and illustration of the 'Two Martyrs fireback' in Sussex Past & Present 131 (December 2013, page 8) resolve a problem which has long bothered me.

Art, Literature and Religion in Early Modern Sussex: Culture and Conflict, by Matthew Dimmock, Andrew Hadfield and Paul Quinn, published 17 September 2014 (286 pp., Routledge, ISBN-10: 1409457036 & ISBN-13: 9781409457039)

Art, Literature and Religion in Early Modern Sussex is an interdisciplinary study of a county at the forefront of religious, political and artistic developments in early-modern England. Ranging from the schism of Reformation to the outbreak of Civil War, the volume brings together scholars from the fields of art history, religious and intellectual history and English literature to offer new perspectives on early-modern Sussex. Essays discuss a wide variety of topics: the coherence of a county divided between East and West and Catholic and Protestant; the art and literary collections of Chichester cathedral; communities of Catholic gentry; Protestant martyrdom; aristocratic education; writing, preaching and exile; local funerary monuments; and the progresses of Elizabeth I. Contributors include Michael Questier; Nigel Llewellyn; Caroline Adams; Karen Coke; and Andrew Foster. The collection concludes with an Afterword by Duncan Salkeld (University of Chichester). This volume extends work done in the 1960s and 70s on early-modern Sussex, drawing on new work on county and religious identities, and setting it into a broad national context. The result is a book that not only tells us much about Sussex, but which also has a great deal to offer all scholars working in the field of local and regional history, and religious change in England as a whole.

Sussex Protestantism and the construction of martyrdom, by Paul Quinn, published 17 September 2014 in Art, Literature and Religion in Early Modern Sussex: Culture and Conflict (Chapter 8., Routledge, ISBN-10: 1409457036 & ISBN-13: 9781409457039)

Heretics and martyrs in Marian Sussex: networks and locations, by M. J. Leppard, published 2016 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 154, article, pp.209-226) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18939] & The Keep [LIB/509465] & S.A.S. library