The Queen asked to pardon martyred Abbot of Glastonbury
18th September 2021
The Queen is set to be asked to pardon a
sixteenth-century abbot posthumously after he was hanged, drawn,
and quartered on 15 November 1539. Blessed Richard Whiting,
Abbot of Glastonbury, was executed for treason in the aftermath of
Henry VIII’s Dissolution of the Monasteries. Along with Blessed
John Wichter (Abbot of Colchester) and Blessed Hugh Faringdon
(Abbot of Reading), they were the…

