York.

After Tyburn in London no other gallows site was such a place of sacrifice as was that on the Knavesmire at York. This site which is about a mile from the old Micklegate Bar on the south side of the old Tadcaster Road is now the green treelined margin of the York Racecourse. The sacrifice which was made here is tremendous:

Blessed Richard Kirkman, priest, 22^nd August 1582.

Blessed William Lacy, priest, 22^nd August 1582.

Blessed James Thompson, priest, 28^th November 1582.

Blessed William Hart, priest, 15^th March 1583.

Blessed Richard Thirkeld, priest, 29^th May, 1583.

Blessed Hugh Taylor, priest, 26^th November 1585.

Blessed Marmaduke Bowes, 27^th November 1585.

Blessed Francis Ingleby, priest, 3^rd June 1586.

Blessed Robert Bickerdyke, layman, 23^rd July 1586.

Blessed John Finglow, priest, 8^th August 1586.

Blessed Richard Langley, layman, 1^st December 1586.

Blessed Edmund Sykes, priest, 23^rd March 1587.

Blessed George Douglas, priest, 9^th September 1587.

Blessed Alexander Crow, priest, 30^th November 1587.

Blessed Edward Burden, priest, 29^th November 1588.

Blessed John Anne, priest, 15^th March 1589.

Blessed Robert Dalby, priest, 15^th March 1589.

Blessed William Spenser, priest, 24^th September 1589.

Blessed Robert Hardesty, layman, 24^th September 1589.

Blessed Robert Thorpe, priest, 31^st May 1591.

Blessed Thomas Watkinson, layman, 31^st May 1591.

Blessed Anthony Page, priest, 20^th April 1593.

Blessed Edward Osbaldeston, priest, 16^th November 1594.

Blessed Alexander Rawlins, priest, 7^th April 1595.

St Henry Walpole, priest, 7^th April 1595.

Blessed George Errington, layman, 29^th November 1596.

Blessed William Knight, layman, 29^th November 1596.

Blessed William Gibson, layman, 29^th November 1596.

Blessed William Audleby, priest, 4^th July 1597.

Blessed Edward Fulthrop, layman, 4^th July 1597.

Blessed Thomas Warcop, layman, 4^th July 1597.

Blessed Henry Abbot, layman, 4^th July 1597.

Blessed John Bretton, layman, 1^st April 1598.

Blessed Peter Snow, priest, 15^th June 1598.

Blessed Ralph Grimston, layman, 15^th June 1598.

Ven. Richard Horner, priest, 4^th September 1598.

Blessed Christopher Wharton, priest, 28^th March 1600.

Ven. James Harrison, priest, 22^nd March 1602.

Ven. Anthony Bates, layman, 22^nd March 1602.

Blessed Thomas Welbourne, layman, 1^st August 1605.

Blessed Matthew Flathers, priest, 21^st March 1608.

Blessed Thomas Atkinson, priest, 11^th March 1616.

Blessed Edward Catherick, priest, 13^th April 1642.

Blessed John Lockwood, priest, 13^th April 1642.

Blessed Nicholas Postgate, priest, 7^th August 1679.

Blessed Thomas Thwing, priest, 23^rd October 1680.

Along with St Margaret Clitherow there were many others who were put to death within the city itself; the above list names only those who died at the Knavesmire. The castle of York was, like Wisbech castle, a sort of Concentration Camp for Catholics. Many, many Catholics perished within its confines, most of them left to wither and rot. I should particularly like to research their lives and witness.