A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Lashford, Joan

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LASHFORD, JOAN,

Daughter of Elizabeth Warne, by a former husband, was burned as a heretic by the Roman Catholics, during the reign of Queen Mary, in the year 1556. A number of other women, about the same time, sealed their faith with their blood. Joan Lashford was about twenty years of age when she thus suffered and died a martyr.