Wikipedia's article on the Marian persecutions, community-edited. Reliable for the 1553 to 1558 dates of Mary I's reign, the repeal of Edward VI's religious legislation and restoration of papal authority, the heresy laws in force from 20 January 1555, at least 280 to 287 Protestants burned (56 of them women) with roughly 30 more dying in prison, and the "Marian exiles" and "Marian Martyrs" this created, later commemorated in the Church of England's own calendar under Elizabeth I.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_persecutions
Source Typereference
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Community-edited reference page, tier 3. Used for the 1553-1558 dates and casualty figures, stated as "at least" in the article's own text rather than a single settled count. NotesUsed for Mary I's 1553-1558 reversal of the English Reformation, the suppression that Elizabeth's 1559 settlement, Anglicanism's existing earliest event, resettled.
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