Sister Elizabeth Barton, 1506-1534, having a vision in a trance in a Catholic church below a statue of the Virgin Mary. She was executed as a result of her prophecies against the marriage of King Henry VIII of England to Anne Boleyn. The Holy Maid of Kent. Copperplate engraving from M. A. Jones’ History of England from Julius Caesar to George IV, G. Virtue, 26 Ivy Lane, London, 1836.

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