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Edward Wightman

Edward Wightman, English minister and martyr (b. 1566)
Edward Wightman (c. 1580 – 11 April 1612) was an English radical Anabaptist minister, executed at Lichfield on charges of heresy. He was the last person to be burned at the stake in England for heresy.

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