A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Bainham, James
There is no entry of his admission on the books, which may have occurred before the date of the earliest Register; but he is said by Foxe, the martyrologist, to have been bred to the study of the law and to have been residing in the Middle Temple, when he was arrested by the Serjeant-at-arms and brought before the Lord Chancellor at Chertsey. He was the son of "Master Bainham, a knight of Gloucestershire." After his arrest he was sent to the Tower and put on the rack, "because he would not accuse the gentlemen of the Temple of his acquaintance nor show where his books lay." He was then brought before the Bishop of London, and finally condemned and burned at the stake at Smithfield, 30 April, 1532. He married the widow of Simon Fish, author of the Supplication of Beggars.