Patrick Pakenham (Packingham, Pakingham) was an English
fellmonger
A fellmonger was a dealer in hides or skins, particularly sheepskins, who might also prepare skins for tanning. The name is derived from the Old English
Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English languag ...
who was burned to death at
Uxbridge
Uxbridge () is a suburban town in west London and the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Hillingdon. Situated west-northwest of Charing Cross, it is one of the major metropolitan centres identified in the London Plan. Uxb ...
in August 1555 because he refused to recant his
Arian beliefs. He is mentioned in
John Foxe's ''
Acts and Monuments
The ''Actes and Monuments'' (full title: ''Actes and Monuments of these Latter and Perillous Days, Touching Matters of the Church''), popularly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs, is a work of Protestant history and martyrology by Protestant Engl ...
'' in the proceedings of
Edmund Bonner
Edmund Bonner (also Boner; c. 15005 September 1569) was Bishop of London from 1539 to 1549 and again from 1553 to 1559. Initially an instrumental figure in the schism of Henry VIII from Rome, he was antagonised by the Protestant reforms intro ...
against John Denley and another.
References
1555 deaths
Post-Reformation Arian Christians
Arian Christians
Leathermaking
16th-century English people
People executed under Mary I of England
Executed British people
People executed by the Kingdom of England by burning
Year of birth unknown
Protestant martyrs of England
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