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Elizabeth Barton, who incited the Roman Catholics to resist the progress of the Reformation, and pretendéd to act under direct inspiration. She was hanged at Tyburn in 1534.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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