The body of Peter Martyr's wife was also exhumed, though, as no evidence of heresy could be procured, it was thrown on a dunghill to rot.
[Sidenote: Martyrs, October 16, 1555] The most famous victims were Latimer, Ridley and Cranmer.

The first two were burnt alive together, Latimer at the stake comforting his friend by assuring him, "This day we shall light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust, shall never be put out." A special procedure was reserved for Cranmer, as primate.

Every effort was made to get him to recant.

He at first signed four submissions recognizing the {323} power of the pope as and if restored by Parliament.

He then signed two real recantations, and finally drew up a seventh document, repudiating his recantations, re-affirming his faith in the Protestant doctrine of the sacraments and denouncing the pope.