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The Examinations
Our edition · 1546 · 48 pages
The Examinations
by Anne Askew
Anne Askew, an English gentlewoman and Protestant, wrote this first-person account of her interrogations, smuggled out and published by the reformer John Bale interleaved with his commentary. Examined in June 1546 before the Lord Chancellor and Sir Richard Rich, she refused to recant or name fellow Protestants. She was tortured on the rack in the Tower — the only woman known to have been racked there — so severely that, unable to walk, she was carried to the stake on a chair and burned at Smithfield on 16 July 1546.
The changed life
Under questioning and on the rack, Askew met every threat with scripture and silence, naming no one and recanting nothing — her examinations a martyr's confession of faith that outlived her killers.
A note on the text. The Examinationsis in the public domain. What you're buying is our edition — the careful typesetting and design. The original text is also available free here.