William Andleby

William Andleby (Anlaby) (executed at York, 4 July 1597) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.

Life
William Andleby was born in Etton, Yorkshire into a gentry family. At 25 he went to the Netherlands to take part in the Dutch war. He visited Douay College out of curiosity and met William Allen; a discussion led to his conversion, and eventually Andleby became a Catholic priest, being ordained 23 March 1577, along with Ralph Sherwin. Andleby returned to England in April 1578.

At first he worked alone. According to Challoner, "For the first four years of his mission he travelled always on foot, meanly attired, and carrying with him usually in a bag his vestments and other things for saying Mass; for his labours lay chiefly among the poor, who were not shocked with such things."

Later Andleby acquired a horse, and around 1587 worked with another Douai priest and native of the Riding, William Atkinson. They travelled widely from Richmond through York to Howden, Hemingbrough and Hull. He is known to have taken his ministry to Mr. Tyrwhitt's, in Lincolnshire, and also to the Catholic prisoners in Kingston upon Hull's blockhouse.

In 1597, he was arrested and condemned as a Catholic priest.  He was executed at York with three laymen: Henry Abbot, Thomas Warcop, and Edward Fulthrop.

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Category:1597 deaths
Category:16th-century English Roman Catholic priests
Category:English beatified people
Category:16th-century venerated Christians
Category:Executed people from the East Riding of Yorkshire
Category:Year of birth unknown
Category:People executed under Elizabeth I of England
Category:Catholic martyrs of England and Wales
Category:Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge