On the floor of St Peter and Paul’s Church in the Lincolnshire village of Stallingborough is this brass marker, it features William Ayscough and his wife Margery Hilyard. This couple were the grandparents of Anne Ayscough (Askew) who was burnt at the stake for her Protestant belief.

William Ayscough died in 1509, just a few years before the teachings of new religion began to take hold.

William was knighted in 1501 at the marriage of Prince Arthur to Catherine of Aragon.

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