biography
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Barton, Elizabeth
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known as the Maid of Kent or the Nun of Kent
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| biography:
| Prophet, born in Kent, SE England, UK. A domestic servant in Aldington, she began to experience trances and make prophetic utterances against the authorities after an illness in 1525. She denounced Henry VIII's divorce and marriage to Anne Boleyn, was charged with treason, and hanged at Tyburn. |
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