in which he declined to take office, though after the arrest of the ministers, Francis Johnson and John Greenwood, he seems to have been the regular preacher. He was arrested in March 1593 following his recognition by the local vicar at Ratcliff and imprisoned in Poultry Compter while efforts were made to find some pretext for a capital charge. Failing this a charge of sedition was based on the rough draft of a petition to Queen Elizabeth I that had been found among his private papers; the language was harsh and offensive, but had been neither presented nor published. He was convicted by the Queen's Bench on 21 May 1593, and hanged at St Thomas-a-Watering on 29 May at the unusual hour of 4 p.m., without being granted permission to see his wife, Eleanor, or their four young daughters, Deliverance, Comfort, Safety and Sure-Hope before his death. The signature of his old enemy Whitgift was the first of those affixed to the death warrant. Notes References External links Welsh Biography Online PENRY , JOHN (1563 - 1593), Puritan author: by Robert Tudur Jones (1959) : short biographical sketch, with references; the Welsh language version (1953-4) is online at National Library of Wales John Penry by Professor Joseph Black (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) - modern short biography, part of Professor Black's digital resource The Martin Marprelate Press: A Documentary History 1559 births 1593 deaths Welsh Protestants People from Brecknockshire Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge Alumni of St Alban Hall, Oxford 16th-century Welsh writers People executed under Elizabeth I Executed Welsh people 16th-century Protestant martyrs People executed by the Kingdom of England by hanging Welsh martyrs Protestant martyrs of England