{{short description|Three English Protestant martyrs}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} The '''Windsor Martyrs''' were English Protestants martyred at Windsor in 1543. Their names were Robert Testwood, Anthony Pearson and Henry Filmer.<ref name=BRH8>{{cite book |title=Berkshire in the Reign of Henry VIII |last=Ford |first=David Nash |year=2009 |publisher=Nash Ford Publishing |location=Wokingham |url=http://www.nashfordpublishing.co.uk}}</ref>
In 1543, during the reign of Henry VIII, the three Windsor Martyrs were arrested by Bishop Gardiner's agent, Dr John London, on the evidence of William Simonds, the Catholic former Mayor of Windsor, who had a grudge against them.<ref name=BRH8 />
John Marbeck and Robert Benet were also arrested, but were later released.<ref name=BRH8 />
The three were condemned on 26 July, after Simonds threatened the jurors, and burnt to death on 4 August on the site of the Windsor & Eton Riverside railway station.<ref name=BRH8 />
Their story was recorded in ''Foxe's Book of Martyrs''. According to Foxe, "many who saw their patient suffering confessed that they could have found in their hearts to have died with them",<ref>p.171-176, ''Testwood and his Companions'', John Foxe, ''Foxe's Book of Martyrs'', 2000, Ambassador Publications</ref> although the Vicar of Bray, who was also watching, decided he would change with the times in order to prevent the same from happening to him.<ref name=BRH8 />
==See also== * List of Protestant martyrs of the English Reformation
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==External links== *[http://www.berkshirehistory.com/articles/windsor_martyrs.html Royal Berkshire History: The Windsor Martyrs]
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