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Edward Wightman (c.1580? – 11 April 1612) was an English radical Anabaptist, executed at Lichfield on charges of heresy.〔Wikisource: ''Dictionary of National Biography''〕〔(Cobbett's complete collection of state trials and proceedings ), 735–736.〕 He was the last person to be burned at the stake for heresy in England.〔Atherton and Como 2005.〕 ==Life== Edward Wightman〔"In the King’s letter, under the privy seal, as well as in the warrant for his execution, he is called ‘Edward Wightman, of the parish of Burton-upon-Trent, in the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield’." Robert Wallace, ''Antitrinitarian Biography'', E. T. Whitfield, 1850, pp 567–568.〕 may have been the child baptised at Hinckley, Leicestershire, on 14 July 1580, by his father, John Wightman.〔Wright 2004.〕 He attended Burton Grammar School and entered the clothiers business of his mother's family. Eventually, he served an apprenticeship as a woollen draper in the town of Shrewsbury.〔A. Macdonald, A Short History of Repton, London, 1929, p 86, 91, 244.〕 He married Frances Darbye of Hinckley in 1593〔Staffordshire Record Office, marriage recorded as 11 Sept. 1593.〕 and settled in Burton upon Trent. Apart from his mercer's business in Burton he also became a minister of the local Anabaptists Church.
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