What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: The just shall live by faith Hebrews 10:38 John Newman a pewterer from Maidstone, Kent was burnt at the stake in Saffron Walden for his Protestant faith 13 August 1555
John Newman, a pewterer from Maidstone, Kent, was martyred during the Marian persecutions for refusing to renounce his Protestant beliefs, becoming one of many victims under Queen Mary I's efforts to restore Catholicism in England.
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