Background
Nutter was born at Burnley, Lancashire.
Nutter was born at Burnley, Lancashire.
Brasenose College.
He was beatified in 1987. Throughout the religious upheavals following the English Reformation the vast majority of English Catholics, many of whom lived in Lancashire, remained staunchly loyal to the throne. He was ordained at Soissons, on 21 December 1581 along with Venerable William Dean and George Haydock.
He remained in the pit forty-seven days, wearing irons for forty-three days, and twice was subjected to the tortures of "the scavenger"s daughter".
On 10 November 1584, he was again consigned to the pit. Robert witnessed his older brother’s execution before being released.
The authorities hoped that he might inadvertently lead them to Catholic safe houses. He was again arrested and transported to France on 21 January 1585, with twenty other priests and one layman, aboard the Mary Martin of Colchester, from Tower Wharf.
Landing at Boulogne, 2 February, he revisited Rome in July, but, returned then to England as escort to newly ordained priests.
When the party was brought ashore at Gravesend, Nutter gave his name as Rowley, but was recognised and on 30 November 1585 again committed to prison in London, this time to Newgate Prison. In 1587 he was removed to the Marshalsea Prison, and thence, in 1590, was sent to Wisbech Castle, Cambridgeshire. On 10 March 1600, the keeper having left the gate unlocked, Nutter and his companions made their escape.
Some were never recaptured, but those who headed south were taken, and Nutter was sent to Lancaster, where he was executed on 26 July 1600.
Robert Nutter was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1987. lieutenant was said of Blessed Robert Nutter that, "e was a man of a strong body but of a stronger soul, who rather despised and conquered death."
attended Street John"s College, Cambridge.
In 1578 the English College at Douai relocated temporarily to Rheims. John was ordained at Laon in September 1582 and left for Yorkshire in November.
However, gale winds blew toward the Suffolk coast. had contracted an illness before sailing and as it grew worse, he ferried ashore at Dunwich.
The ship was subsequently driven on a sandbank and men of the town searched it for anything salvageable. A bundle of Catholic books were foundation The ill Nutter was questioned at the inn where he had been taken and acknowledged that he was a priest.
He was arrested and taken to the Marshalsea.
He remained there a year before being tried and condemned, and shortly thereafter executed at Tyburn, along with James Fenn, George Haydock, Thomas Hemerford, and John Munden.