Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Anne Askew

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English poet Anne Askew.
Last updated on December 2, 2024.
Anne Askew

Anne Askew was an English writer, poet, and Anabaptist preacher who was condemned as a heretic in England during the reign of Henry VIII of England. She and Margaret Cheyne, wife of Sir John Bulmer, who was similarly tortured and executed after the Pilgrimage of Grace in 1537, are the only women on record known to have been both tortured in the Tower of London and burnt at the stake.

I would sooner read five lines of the Bible than hear five masses in the "Church". — © Anne Askew
I would sooner read five lines of the Bible than hear five masses in the "Church".
God has given me the bread of adversity and the water of trouble.
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