John Frith - Timeline

Timeline

  • 1503 Born in Westerham, Kent, England
  • 1510 Frith and family moved to Sevenoaks
  • 1520-22 Recorded to have attended Eton College
  • 1522 Enrolled at Queens' College, Cambridge
  • 1523 Transferred over to King's College, Cambridge
  • 1525-28 Transferred to Thomas Wolsey's Cardinal College, Oxford to become a junior canon
  • 1528 Imprisoned at Cardinal College in the institution's fish cellar by Cardinal Wolsey
  • 1528 Roughly 6 months later, Cardinal Wolsey released surviving fish cellar prisoners on the paroling condition of residing within a 10-mile radius around Oxford
  • 1528 Fled England for Antwerp
  • 1528 Travelled to Marburg, Germany
  • 1532 Returned to England and was imprisoned in the Tower of London for approximately 8 months
  • 23 June 1533 Sentenced to death as a heretic and was transferred to Newgate Prison
  • 4 July 1533 Publicly burned at the stake in Smithfield, London

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