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词条 Joyce Lewis
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  1. Life

  2. Legacy

  3. References

Joyce Lewis or Jocasta Lewis (died 1557) was an English Protestant martyr.

Life

She was only daughter of Thomas and Anne Curzon of Croxall in Staffordshire. Her maternal grandfather was Sir John Aston of Tixall. She first married Sir George Appleby of Appleby in Leicestershire and they had two sons. Her husband died in 1547 at the Battle of Pinkie.{{sfn|Archbold|1893}}

She then married Thomas Lewis of Mancetter on 10 September 1547. She was a Catholic, but she began to question her faith, according to the partisan martyrologist John Foxe,[1][2] after the martyrdom of Lawrence Saunders on 8 February 1555. Her move to being a Protestant was led by the brother of another martyr, Robert Glover, who died the same year.{{sfn|Archbold|1893}}

Her previous devotion to Catholicism was replaced by "irreverent behaviour in church" which came to the notice of Ralph Baines, the Bishop of Lichfield. Lewis spent a year in jail before she was taken, with the comfort of the priest Augustine Bernher, to be burnt at Lichfield on 18 December 1557.

Legacy

Lewis was said to have been aware of the impact of her own death and she had consulted to maximise the value of her sacrifice. After she died, eleven of her supporters were summoned to account for their actions. Under pressure they all recanted.[3] A memorial to Joyce Lewis and Robert Glover was placed in Mancetter Church in 1833.{{sfn|Archbold|1893}}

References

1. ^Richings, R (1860) The Mancetter martyrs: the suffering and martyrdom of Mr Robert Glover and Mrs Joice [sic] Lewis (London: pp xiii/xiv)
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.exclassics.com/foxe/foxe368.htm |title=Foxe's Book of Martyrs – 365. Joyce Lewes |publisher=Exclassics.com |date= |accessdate=2015}}
3. ^Henry Summerson, ‘Lewis , Joyce other married name Joyce Appleby, Lady Appleby] (died 1557)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 31 Jan 2015
Works cited
  • {{cite DNB|first=William Arthur Jobson |last=Archbold |wstitle=Lewis, Joyce |volume=34 |ref=harv}}
Attribution
  • {{DNB|first=William Arthur Jobson |last=Archbold |wstitle=Lewis, Joyce |volume=34}}
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4 : 1557 deaths|People from Derbyshire (before 1895)|Converts to Protestantism from Roman Catholicism|Protestant martyrs of England

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