This Day in History: 1556-03-24

John Maundrel, son of Robert Maundrel a farmer of Rowde,  who lived in the Buchampton in the parish of Keevil, where at the church in Keevil, disrupted the service and denied the Roman Catholic religion, he was arrested and held at Fisherton Gaol, On 24 March he was taken with two others, John Spicer a mason, and William Coberley, tailor, to the junction of the Wilton and Devizes road, where posts had been driven into the ground ready for a bonfire. and were burnt to death for their heretical views