Margaret Polley

Margaret Polley (died 1555) from Popingberry, Rochester, Kent was a sixteenth-century English Protestant martyr. Her story is recorded is Foxe's Book of Martyrs.

She was questioned by Maurice Griffin, bishop of Rochester, was condemned to death for heresy and kept in prison for over a month. John Foxe wrote that she was in the prime of her life, pious, charitable, humane, learned in the Scriptures, and beloved by all who knew her..

She was executed in July 1555 in Tunbridge, on the same day as Christopher Wade.^[1]

References

1. ^ Martyrdom of Margaret Polley, p.276-279, John Foxe, Foxe's Book of Martyrs, Ambassador Publications, 2000

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Name	Polley, Margaret
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Date of death	1555
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