page_title: Ipswich Martyrs
section_title: Memorial texts
hierarchical_section_title: Ipswich Martyrs / Memorial texts
caption_attribution_description: English: Ipswich Martyrs Monument, Ipswich, Suffolk.
context_page_description: The Ipswich Martyrs were nine people burnt at the stake for their Lollard or Protestant beliefs around 1515-1558. The executions were mainly carried out in the centre of Ipswich, Suffolk on The Cornhill, the square in front of Ipswich Town Hall. At that time the remains of the medieval church of St Mildred were used for the town's Moot Hall. Later, in 1644 Widow Lackland was executed on the same site on the orders of Matthew Hopkins, the notorious Witchfinder General.
  Other groups of Protestants were persecuted in various parts of Suffolk during the same period, notably those of Hadleigh, Beccles, Yoxford, Laxfield, Wetheringsett, Stowmarket, Framsden, Hintlesham, Haverhill, Winston, Mendlesham, Stoke-by-Nayland, East Bergholt, Dedham, Thwaite, Bedfield, Crowfield, Long Melford, Somerton and Little Stonham. The most famous was Dr Rowland Taylor of Hadleigh, burnt on Aldham Common in 1555.
context_section_description: "This monument is erected to the memory of nine Ipswich martyrs who for their constancy to the Protestant faith suffered death by burning."
  "Oh may Thy soldiers, faithful, true and bold,
  
  Fight as the saints who nobly fought of old,
  
  And win with them the victor's crown of gold.
  
  Alleluia."
caption: The text at the front of the monument
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