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Jesus is condemned to death

 

Cranmer's Band, 16th Century

Ashmolean Museum

This iron band is said to have been used to confine Archbishop Thomas Cranmer during his imprisonment in Oxford in the 1550s. Having played a key role in establishing the Church of England, Cranmer was convicted of heresy during Mary I’s reign and burnt at the stake in Oxford in 1556.

Image © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.