Martyrs' Memorial, Stratford

At Stratford-le-Bow in London is a large, Victorian monument to the Christian martyrs of that place who were burnt to death for the truth of the gospel and their rejection of Rome’s deceit. Stratford has a large, international railway station and a busy high street, but most nonchalantly pass this object which commemorates those men and women ‘of whom the world was not worthy’:

Henry Adlington, sawyer

Laurence Pernam, blacksmith

Henry Wye, brewer

William Halliwel, blacksmith

Thomas Bowyer, weaver

George Searles, tailor

Edmund Hurst, labourer

Lyon Cawch, merchant (Flemish)

Ralph Jackson, servant

John Derifall, labourer

John Routh, labourer

Elizabeth Pepper

Elizabeth Pepper's unborn child

Agnes George

Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. Hebrews 12:1-2a