You hand a butcher a torch - and refuse to light your rector's pyre

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A butcher is ordered to burn his own rector alive on a freezing Suffolk morning. What do you do when the one thing you will not surrender is the one thing they will kill you for keeping?

You hand a butcher a torch - and refuse to light your rector's pyre

This episode explores the story of Rowland Taylor, a man who faced an impossible choice in 1555. It delves into the personal and political forces that shaped his decision, and the profound question of what it costs to hold an idea when the world decides it should die.

Person: Rowland Taylor
Date: February 1555
Location: Hadleigh, Suffolk, England
Status: Rector
Event: English Reformation

- Rowland Taylor was a Cambridge doctor of law and rector of Hadleigh for eleven years, genuinely loved by his community.
- He had helped build the English Reformation, serving as chaplain to influential reformers Hugh Latimer and Archbishop Thomas Cranmer.
- Taylor publicly denounced transubstantiation and defended clerical marriage, positions that carried significant consequences.
- Six days after Mary I was crowned in July 1553, Taylor was arrested, and later held in King's Bench Prison.
- In January 1555, Parliament revived the statute making heresy a capital offense, leading to Taylor's examination before a commission.

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