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

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 40 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ABEL (better ABELL), THOMAS (d. 1540)  , an
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English priest who was martyred during the reign of Henry VIII . The place and date of his birth are unknown . He was educated at Oxford and entered the service of Queen Catherine some time before 1528, when he was sent by her to the emperor Charles V. on a
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mission
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relating to the proposed
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divorce . On his return he was presented by Catherine to the living of Bradwell, in 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 answer to the numerous tracts supporting Henry's ecclesiastical claims . After an imprisonment of more than six years, Abel was sentenced to
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death for denying the royal supremacy in the church, and was executed at Smithfield on the 3oth of
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July 1540 . There is still to be seen on the wall of his prison in the Tower the symbol of a bell with an A upon it and the name Thomas above, which he carved during his confinement . He was beatified by Pope Leo XIII . See J . Gillow's Bibl .
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Dictionary of Eng . Catholics, vol. i .

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

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