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BARTHOLOMEW LEGATE (c. 1575-1612)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 374 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARTHOLOMEW See also:LEGATE (c. 1575-1612)  , See also:English fanatic, was See also:born in See also:Essex and became a dealer in See also:cloth . About the beginning of the 17th See also:century he became a preacher among a See also:sect called the " Seekers," and appears to have held unorthodox opinions about the divinity of Jesus See also:Christ . Together with his See also:brother See also:Thomas he was put in See also:prison for See also:heresy in 1611 . Thomas died in Newgate See also:gaol, See also:London, but See also:Bartholomew's imprisonment was not a rigorous one . See also:James I. argued with him, and on several occasions he was brought before the See also:Consistory See also:Court of London, but without any definite result . Eventually, after having threatened to bring an See also:action for wrongful imprisonment, See also:Legate was tried before a full Consistory Court in See also:February 1612, was found guilty of heresy, and was delivered to the See also:secular authorities for See also:punishment . Refusing to retract his opinions he was burned to See also:death at Smithfield on the 18th of See also:March 1612 . Legate was the last See also:person burned in London for his religious opinions, and See also:Edward Wightman, who was burned at See also:Lichfield in See also:April 1612, was the last to suffer in this way in See also:England . See T . See also:Fuller, See also:Church See also:History of See also:Britain (1655) ; and S . R . See also:Gardiner, History of England, vol. ii .

(London, 1904) .

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