John Payne was an English priest who was tortured and then executed on the wholly trumped up charge of having plotted to kill the queen. He died in 1582, and was canonized in 1970 as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
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- Bl. John Payne English priest, tortured and martyred on completely fabricated charges of conspiracy to murder the queen. Executed in 1582.