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Events on Sunday 16 October 1555 2
1487 – 1555Hugh Latimer (1487-1555)Died 16 October 1555, aged 68A former Bishop of Worcester and prominent English Reformation preacher, Latimer was burned at the stake in Oxford alongside Nicholas Ridley for heresy under Mary I. His reported final words encouraging Ridley became one of the most quoted lines of the English Reformation.
1500 – 1555Nicholas Ridley (1500-1555)Died 16 October 1555, aged 55Bishop of London and a key figure in shaping Anglican doctrine under Edward VI, Ridley was burned at the stake in Oxford together with Hugh Latimer for refusing to recant Protestant beliefs. He is counted among the Oxford Martyrs.