William Hunter - a martyr burnt to death in Brentwood, England at the age of 19 on 27 March 1555. He got into a dispute when discovered reading the Bible in Brentwood Chapel refusing to accept the dogma of transubstantiation. He was sent to London for trial but refusing to recant he was returned to Brentwood to be burnt. His story is recorded in Foxe’s Book of Martyrs. Foxe gives a figure of 300 martyrs between 1553 and 1558 many of them being inhabitants of Essex.