WELCOME! JOHN MAWSON, MARTYR The Manner of Execution at Tyburn I find John Mawson's name in the list of those that suffered this year [1612] for the catholic religion but with little or no particulars. He was apprehended whilst he was actually hearing Mass: but as this is not capital, by our laws he must have suffered on some other charge. Whether it was for being reconciled to the Roman catholic church; or for assisting priests; or for being instrumental in the conversion of others, &c. my short memoirs do not inform me of - only that he suffered at Tyburn, upon the penal statutes then in force against the English catholics. This year, 1612, according to B. W. in his manuscript concerning the English Benedictine congregation, Thomas Hill, D. D. who from a seminary priest, educated in the colleges of Rheims and Rome, became a monk of the said congregation, was condemned to die for his priestly character; but was not executed. He died afterwards at Douay in 1644, in the 84th ...