the London Charterhouse, exiled by the government to the Charterhouse of St Michael at Hull in Yorkshire, executed at York on 11 May 1537 by being hanged in chains from the city battlements until dead. Blessed William Greenwood, laybrother of the London Charterhouse, died of illness in Newgate Prison, London on 6 June 1537. Blessed John Davy, deacon, choir monk of the London Charterhouse, died of illness in Newgate Prison on 8 June 1537. Blessed Robert Salt, laybrother of the London Charterhouse, died of illness in Newgate Prison, London on 9 June 1537. Blessed Walter Pierson, laybrother of the London Charterhouse, died of illness in Newgate Prison, London on 10 June 1537 Blessed Thomas Green (perhaps alias Thomas Greenwood), choir monk of the London Charterhouse, died of illness in Newgate Prison, London on 10 June 1537. Blessed Thomas Scryven, laybrother of the London Charterhouse, died of illness in Newgate Prison, London on 15 June 1537. Blessed Thomas Redyng, laybrother of the London Charterhouse, died of illness in Newgate Prison, London on 16 June 1537. Blessed Richard Bere, choir monk of the London Charterhouse, died of illness in Newgate Prison, London on 9 August 1537 Blessed Thomas Johnson, choir monk of the London Charterhouse, died of illness in Newgate Prison, London on 20 September 1537. Blessed William Horne, laybrother of the London Charterhouse, hanged, disembowelled, and quartered at Tyburn, London on 4 August 1540. Veneration They were beatified in 1886 by Pope Leo XIII. Houghton, Lawrence, and Webster were canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1970. There is a memorial plaque at Charterhouse Square. A private commemoration ceremony takes place each year at the Carthusian martyrs plaque on 4 May, the date of John Houghton's execution. In art There are paintings of four of the Carthusian martyrs - Blessed William Exmew, Blessed Thomas Johnson, Blessed Richard Bere, and Blessed Thomas Green - at the Certosa di Bologna. Vincente Carducho was employed by the monks of the Cartuja de El Paular to decorate the great cloister with 54 canvases of historical figures. Twenty-seven represent the life of St. Bruno, twenty-seven are of martyrs. See also Carthusian Carthusian Martyrs Eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales Forty Martyrs of England and Wales Hermit List of Catholic martyrs of the English Reformation References Sources Webpage: Immaculate Heart of Mary's Hermitage:Carthusian Saints, Blesseds and Martyrs External links "Archbishop of Canterbury's sermon to commemorate Carthusian Martyrs", 4