page_title: Nine Martyrs of England and Wales
section_title: List of individual names
hierarchical_section_title: Nine Martyrs of England and Wales / List of individual names
caption_attribution_description: English: Hugh Faringdon plaque, English Martyrs Church, Liebenhood Road, Reading Hugh Cook Faringdon - last Abbot of Reading Abbey. Was executed in 1539 at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and beatified in 1895
context_page_description: Nine Martyrs of England and Wales, also known as Hugh Faringdon and Eight Companion Martyrs are a group of clergy and laypersons who were executed on charges of treason and related offences in the Kingdom of England. Eight of these occurred in 1539, during the reign of King Henry VIII, and one other in 1572.
  They are considered martyrs in the Roman Catholic Church and were beatified on 13 May 1895 by Pope Leo XIII.
context_section_description: They were chosen from a number of priests and laymen executed between 1584 and 1679, during the English Reformation. Their names were:
  John Beche
  John Eynon
  Hugh Faringdon (or Cook)
  Adrian Fortescue
  Roger James
  Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland
  John Rugg (or Rugge)
  John Thorne
  Richard Whiting
caption: Plaque, with the likeness of Hugh Faringdon
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