• Inn. The Star Inn became Lewes Town Hall and the undercroft still exists. Together with the Gunpowder Plot, the Lewes Martyrs are commemorated annually...
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    Lewes Bonfire, or Bonfire for short, describes a set of celebrations held in the town of Lewes, Sussex, England, that constitute the United Kingdom's largest...
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    martyrs: the suffering and martyrdom of Mr Robert Glover and Mrs Joice [sic] Lewis (London: pp xiii/xiv) "Foxe's Book of Martyrs – 365. Joyce Lewes"...
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    and schoolmaster from Lewes, tried to hijack the notoriety of the Lewes Bonfire Boys incorporating the Lewes Protestant Martyrs into their festivities...
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    communications, in 1264 it was the site of the Battle of Lewes. The town's landmarks include Lewes Castle, Lewes Priory, Bull House (the former home of Thomas Paine)...
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    Protestant martyr, who was born in Buxted and lived in nearby Warbleton in East Sussex. He was burnt during the Marian Persecutions in 1557 in Lewes. The cult...
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    to the east of the town of Lewes in East Sussex, England. It is impressive on its western edge, where it looms over Lewes. Its summit is covered in a...
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  • Wishart and Walter Milne Political Martyrs' Monument, Edinburgh Stratford Martyrs' Memorial There are other memorials at Lewes in Sussex, and in other places...
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    is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as "Odemancote". Two of the Lewes martyrs, burnt at the stake in the Marian Persecutions of 1556, Thomas Harland...
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    (2012). Hammer and Furnace Ponds - Relics of the Wealden Iron Industry. Lewes: Pomegranate Press. ISBN 978-1-907242-15-1. Hodgkinson, J S (2009). The...
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