People and Stories

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• Thomas Holden
• The Lancaster Martyrs
• The Lancashire Witch trials of 1612
• George and Elizabeth Youngson
• George Lyon - The Up Holland Highwayman
• Stephen Cropper: A Debtor's Story
• Murder Trials
• Guides' Histories

The Lancaster Martyrs

During the period 1584-1646 fifteen Catholics were executed in Lancaster for their faith. The law at this time made it illegal to convert or be converted to Catholicism, to say or hear Mass or to help or conceal the presence of a priest. To be a priest ordained abroad was classed as treason.

• The Lancaster Martyrs
• Final recognition by Rome