Everything about Nicholas Shaxton totally explained
Nicholas Shaxton (1485? -
1556) was a
Reformer and a
Bishop of Salisbury.
After
papal jurisdiction in
England was ended by
Henry VIII, the
Italian bishop Cardinal Campeggio was sacked as Bishop of Salisbury in
1534. After a year left vacant, Shaxton was appointed by
Thomas Cromwell in his place. Along with fellow Reformers
Thomas Cranmer and
Hugh Latimer, Shaxton spent time interrogating
John Lambert in
1536. However Shaxton resigned his
bishopric in
1539 because he opposed the King's
Six Articles, for which he was imprisoned.
In 1546 Shaxton along with
Anne Askew and a few others were arrested for denying the corporal presence in the sacrament.
John Foxe in his
Book of Martyrs recounts how Shaxton tried to persuade Askew to recant her Protestant beliefs to escape
burning, as he did, with Askew replying that it would have been good if Shaxton had never been born. Shaxton gave a sermon at Askew's burning in which he recanted his
evangelical beliefs.
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