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All Saints Pavement
On the wall
inside this ancient church you will find the helmet, sword and gauntlets
of Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumbria. On the pavement outside he was
humiliated and beheaded without trial on a specially constructed scaffold
without trial for leading the Catholic uprising of 1569. Just before his
death he made a speech, a public profession of faith, which apparently
inspired Margaret Clitherow to convert to Catholicism.
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