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Holy Maid of Kent (The)

Elizabeth Barton, who incited the Roman Catholics to resist the progress of the Reformation, and pretendéd to act under direct inspiration. She was hanged at Tyburn in 1534.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.