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There But For The Grace Of God Goes
The expression There But For The Grace Of God Goes is used by people when noting another's misfortune and suggesting that it could easily have befallen themselves. The popular Protestant preacher John Bradford used the phrase while being held in the Tower of London on the false charges of "trying to stir up a mob". In actual fact, he had really saved a Catholic preacher named Bourne from a baying Protestant mob. However, this happened during Mary I's reign, whose reinstatement of the Catholic Church saw the persecution of many Protestants. Bradford witnessed many being taken away for execution whilst in the Tower and each time would remark, -There but for the grace of God goes John Bradford.- Bradford's luck didn't hold for long and he was charged with heresy and burned at the stake in Smithfield market on 1 July 1555.
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