ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST
Saints celebrated on the 5th of August
BLESSED ROBERT BICKERDIKE, MARTYR
[Blessed] Robert was a martyr, a Yorkshire layman, born at Low Hall, near Knaresborough (date unknown), but residing at York; he died on August 5 (or October 8), 1585.
Arrested for giving a priest, John Boste, a glass of ale, he was also accused at his trial of using treasonable words. He was acquitted, but Judge Rhodes, determined to have his blood, had him removed from the city gaol to the Castle and tried once more at the Lammas Assizes on the same charge. He was then condemned.
One of his offences was that, when Francis Ingleby was being dragged on the hurdle to execution, hearing a minister's wife say: "Let us go into the Tolbooth and we shall see the traitorly thief come over on the hurdle", he said, "No; no thief, but as true as thou art". These words were supposed to be the cause of his death. He suffered at York.
From Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
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