re: #149 godfrey

St. Thomas More, subjecting heretics to torture himself. And your source for this is John Foxe. Foxe was a Protestant polemicist.

It’s not just Foxe. “Thomas More” by Richard Marius has a whole chapter, in Google Books, on More’s dealings with heretics. More had written in his own “Dialogue Concerning Heresies” that a heretic would always recant his beliefs if he was faced with death. Many Protestants took him up on that challenge and More gleefully met them.