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The execution of Richard Roose continues to shock people centuries after it took place. ‌

While history remembers executions of the likes of Anne Boleyn , and Thomas Cromwell, the name of Richard Roose doesn't immediately ring a bell. But those who learn about his method of punishment won't soon forget him. ‌

Roose was put to death during the bloody reign of Henry VIII alongside as many as 72,000 others who died under similar circumstances . Roose had been a cook in the household of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, with whom King Henry hadn't always seen eye to eye. ‌

A staunch supporter of Henry's first wife, Catherine of Aragon, esteemed theologian Fisher disapproved of the monarch's decision to divorce the widely loved queen and throw England i

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