Edward Isaac was an influential 16th-century English Protestant and

Marian exile The Marian exiles were English Protestants who fled to Continental Europe during the 1553–1558 reign of the Catholic monarchs Queen Mary I and King Philip.Christina Hallowell Garrett (1938) ''Marian Exiles: A Study in the Origins of Elizabeth ...

. He was a lay supporter of John Bland. He resided at Well Court in

Ickham and Well Ickham and Well is a mostly rural civil parish east of Canterbury in Kent, South East England. The parish covers the villages of Ickham and Bramling just off the A257 Sandwich Road. It has several listed buildings in architecture of old, well-pr ...

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. Isaac helped Edwin Sandys leave England, sending his son to accompany him to

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Mary I of England Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, and as "Bloody Mary" by her Protestant opponents, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain from January 1556 until her death in 1558. Sh ...

arranged for eleven of the exiles to be arrested for sedition, including Isaac. Isaac himself left for Strasburg, where he was one of the group opposed to

John Knox John Knox ( gd, Iain Cnocc) (born – 24 November 1572) was a Scottish minister, Reformed theologian, and writer who was a leader of the country's Reformation. He was the founder of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. Born in Giffordgat ...

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