Queen Mary I

,

1516-1558

,
Christian
...on
Hell

As the souls of heretics are hereafter to be eternally burning in hell, there can be nothing more proper than for me to imitate the Divine vengeance by burning them on earth.  

quoted by William Rounsville Alger, A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life, Philadelphia, PA: George W. Childs 1864, p. 515

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