Nicholas Postgate is one of the 85 English Catholic Martyrs. He was arrested on 8th December 1678 while carrying out a baptism at the house of Matthew Lyth.
He was hanged, disemboweled and quartered at York on 7 August 1679.
House where Nicholas Postgate was arrested, Littlebeck
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was that because he was catholic???
Yes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Catholic_martyrs_of_the_English_Reformation
Statue in St Hilda’s RC Church, Whitby https://www.flickr.com/photos/bolckow/8579869606/in/photolist-5bkutW-mDSZyF-eiBvps-eiBuEm-e5b5jj-dSoPpe-abJV8H-9A1kq5-6jYzgX-5KNCkf-5T63Cn-4nbBDr-6P7eEd