Burning at the stake

• When Mary I became queen she changed the country back to the Catholic religion.
• Mary's brother had made England Protestant when he was king. She quickly cancelled his religious laws.
• Leading Protestants like Thomas Cranmer were arrested and put in prison.
• Mary punished many religious people because they would not follow her ways. They were called 'heretics' because they would not follow the religion that Mary wanted them to.
• The punishment for heretics was death.
• Heretics were burned at the stake.
• After 1555 Thomas Cranmer, Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley were burned at the stake.
• 270 Protestant priests and ordinary people were burned at the stake.
• Mary became known as 'Bloody Mary' because of the number of deaths she ordered.