| Description | George Marsh was a native of Dean near Bolton in Lancashire.and was ordained about 1542. He was arrested for his protestant teaching at Smithell's Hall near Bolton and sent to Lathorn House to be tried by the Earl of Derby. By him he was committed to Lancaster goal, but was afterwards removed to Chester where he was examined for the second time, in the Consistory Court, now the Lady Chapel, by Bishop Coates. He was sentenced to be burned at the stake for the so called crime of Heresy (AD 1554) which sentence was carried out April 24th 1555 at Spital, Boughton. Marshe's bones were collected by sympathizers and burried im St Giles burial ground. A monument is now erected near the place where he was burned. |