Young, Elizabeth (fl. 1558)

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Young, Elizabeth (fl. 1558)

British religious reformer. Born in England; married; children: 3.

Was among the Protestants who fled to the Continent to avoid persecution in the time of Mary I; smuggled John Olde's Antichrist, and other Protestant tracts across the English channel; arrested for importing Protestant books, refusal to attend Mass, and rejection of tenets of Catholicism and authority of pope, underwent 13 interrogations before being released. John Foxe records legal examinations of Young in Actes and Monuments (1563).

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