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FROM THE very interesting article by Canon Bamber, ‘The Secret Treasure of Chaigley’ (Recusant History, 17/4), it seems clear that the skull belonged to someone who had been publicly executed in the way suffered by the martyrs, who was not Philip Holden, nor one of the Lancashire Martyrs unless he be Bl. Miles Gerard, who was executed at Rochester. Might I suggest that the head is that of Dan George Lazenby, a monk of Jervaulx Abbey in Yorkshire? He was condemned to be executed at York in August 1535 for refusing to acknowledge the Royal Supremacy, the only one of his community at the time to stand firm, and he would have been hanged, drawn and quartered.
*For a recent account of this martyr, with full references, see Cistercian Studies, no. 4 (1985) pp. 314–22: ‘George Lazenby: Among the First of the Few’ by Fr. Paul Dierner, O.C.S.O., of Mount St Bernard's Abbey, Coalville, Leics., LE6 3UL, who would welcome any fresh evidence about Lazenby and/or Madde.