Edward Isaac Explained

Edward Isaac was an influential 16th-century English Protestant and Marian exile. He was a lay supporter of John Bland.^[1] He resided at Well Court in Ickham and Well, Kent.^[2]

Isaac helped Edwin Sandys leave England, sending his son to accompany him to Antwerp.^[2] Mary I of England arranged for eleven of the exiles to be arrested for sedition, including Isaac.^[3] Isaac himself left for Strasburg, where he was one of the group opposed to John Knox.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Book: Michael Zell. Early Modern Kent, 1540-1640. 2000. Boydell & Brewer. 978-0-85115-585-2. 227.
2. Book: John Foxe. Narrative of the Days of the Reformation: Chiefly from the Manuscripts of John Foxe the Martyrologist;. 1859. Camden Society. 342.
3. Book: Christina Hallowell Garrett. The Marian Exiles: A Study in the Origins of Elizabethan Puritanism. 10 June 2010. Cambridge University Press. 978-1-108-01126-6. 37 note 1.