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ABEL (better ABELL), THOMAS (d. 1540)

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ABEL (better ABELL), See also:THOMAS (d. 1540)  , an See also:English See also:priest who was martyred during the reign of See also:Henry VIII . The See also:place and date of his See also:birth are unknown . He was educated at See also:Oxford and entered the service of See also:Queen See also:Catherine some See also:time before 1528, when he was sent by her to the See also:emperor See also:Charles V. on a See also:mission See also:relating to the proposed See also:divorce . On his return he was presented by Catherine to the living of Bradwell, in See also:Essex, and remained to the last a staunch supporter of the unfortunate queen . In 1533, he published his Invicta Veritas (with the fictitious pressmark of Luneberge, to avoid suspicion), which contained an See also:answer to the numerous tracts supporting Henry's ecclesiastical claims . After an imprisonment of more than six years, See also:Abel was sentenced to See also:death for denying the royal supremacy in the See also:church, and was executed at Smithfield on the 3oth of See also:July 1540 . There is still to be seen on the See also:wall of his See also:prison in the See also:Tower the See also:symbol of a See also:bell with an A upon it and the name See also:Thomas above, which he carved during his confinement . He was beatified by See also:Pope See also:Leo XIII . See J . See also:Gillow's Bibl . See also:Dictionary of Eng . Catholics, vol. i .

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Calendar of See also:State Papers4f Henry VIII., vols. iv: vii. passim .

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