12 décembre 2018
Laurence Lux-Sterritt, « Topcliffe, his horse, and Wiseman's holy water miracle », Early Modern English Nuns, ID : 10670/1.nnjep1
A story from # nuntastic archives, and a hilarious miracle From the notice on Mother Mary Wiseman’s parentage, we learn that her mother, Jane Wiseman (née Vaughan), had been active in relieving priests, and was taken into custody by the dreaded Richard Topcliffe in 1598. Since she refused to plead and would not be tried by a jury, she was therefore sentenced to death by the peine forte et dure, or, being pressed to death. This was the same sentence that was passed upon Margaret Clitherow in Y...