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ASKEW, or ASCUE, ANNE (1521?-! 546), English Protestant martyr, born at Stallingborough about 1521, was the second daughter of Sir William Askew (d. 1540) of South Kelsey, Lincoln, by his first wife Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Wrottesley. Her elder sister, M ...

ASKE, ROBERT (d. 1537), English rebel, was a country gentleman who belonged to an ancient family long settled in Yorkshire, his mother being a daughter of John, Lord Clifford. When in 1536 the insurrection called the " Pilgrimage of Grace " broke out in Yorksh

... taineers, and aided by the natural strength of their country they have ASISIUM— ASKEW hitherto preserved their independence. Since the beginning of the ipth century they have been bigoted Wahhabis, though previously regarded by their neighbours as very lax Mah ...