William Andleby
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William Andleby (Anlaby) (executed at York, 4 July 1597) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.
Life
He was born in Etton, Yorkshire into a gentry family. At 25 he went to the Netherlands to take part in the Dutch war. He visited Douay College and met William Allen; a discussion led to his conversion, and eventually Andleby became a Catholic priest.
He is known to have taken his ministry to Mr. Tyrwhitt's, in Lincolnshire, and also to the Catholic prisoners in Kingston upon Hull's blockhouse.
- "For the first four years of his mission he travelled always on foot, meanly attired, and carrying with him usually in a bag his vestments and other things for saying Mass; for his labours lay chiefly among the poor, who were not shocked with such things" (Challoner).
After about 20 years, he was condemned as a Catholic priest. He was executed with three laymen, John Abbot, Thomas Warcop, and Edward Fulthrop.
References
- Attribution
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