At this point, according to the three men in the original interviews, the locksmith was paid for the trip and left before the closet was actually opened, though the men would later recant that version and insist that the locksmith was present when they entered the closet.

Elkins, by carefully tracing available original documents and interviews with surviving Kenyans and colonial staff, indicates that part of Hola Prison was used as a remote punishment camp for ' hard core ' Mau Mau insurgents who refused to recant their oaths or affiliation to the movement.

Taking the blinding of the Earl of Gloucester in King Lear as inspiration, Lionheart has arranged a contraption containing two red-hot daggers, which are poised to blind the critic should he refuse to recant and whom he will release otherwise.

' I recant and say, ' Indulgences are the most pious frauds and imposters of the most rascally pontiffs, by which they deceive the souls and destroy the goods of the faithful.

Those who are merely hearers or followers of the doctrine, if they will not repent and recant, shall be transported to the Mohammedan cities ( in Turkistan ) and given to be slaves to the beys and other powerful Mohammedans who are able to coerce them.

Those who are merely hearers or followers of the doctrine, if they will not repent and recant, shall be transported to the Mohammedan cities ( in Turkistan ) and given to be slaves to the beys and other powerful Mohammedans who are able to coerce them.

Those who are merely hearers or followers of the doctrine, if they will not repent and recant, shall be transported to the Mohammedan cities ( in Turkistan ) and given to be slaves to the beys and other powerful Mohammedans who are able to coerce them.

Pressure was reportedly put on Protestants in several northwestern villages to recant their faith in 2005, though there are fewer reports than in years past.

For example the confession of Marc Smeaton at the trial of Anne Boleyn was presented in written form only, either to hide from the court that Smeaton had been tortured on the rack for four hours, or because Thomas Cromwell was worried that he would recant his confession if cross-examined.

Maximus was tortured on the rack and by being beaten with rods, but because he would not recant, Optimus ordered him lapidated.

For example the confession of Marc Smeaton at the trial of Anne Boleyn was presented in written form only, either to hide from the court that Smeaton had been tortured on the rack for four hours, or because Thomas Cromwell was worried that he would recant his confession if cross examined.

Having been informed that Bessie will be ejected from the care facility because he refuses to recant his beliefs, he returns to London.

Galileo did in fact use a telescope, observe the moons of Jupiter, advocate for the heliocentric model, observe sun spots, investigate buoyancy, and write on physics, and did visit the Vatican twice to defend his work, the second time being made to recant his views, and being confined to house arrest thereafter.

To the surprise of the south Germans, Luther began by attacking them, demanding that they recant their false understanding of the eucharist.

This compelled many Anti-Maimonideans to recant their assertions and realize what cooperation with Christians meant to them, their texts and their communities.

They settled among the Tupinamba until January 1558, when some of them managed to return to France by ship together with Jean de Léry, and five others chose to return to Coligny island where three of them were drowned by Villegagnon for refusing to recant.

Nevertheless he was forced to recant various ideas he had propounded that seemed to overlap them before he disappeared from public life.

During the persecution under Diocletian, Cosmas and Damian were arrested by order of the Prefect of Cilicia, one Lysias who is otherwise unknown, who ordered them under torture to recant.

The first recorded English antitrinitarian was John Assheton who was forced to recant before Thomas Cranmer in 1548.

In 1204 his doctrines were condemned by the university, and, on a personal appeal to Pope Innocent III, the sentence was ratified, Amalric being ordered to return to Paris and recant his errors.

The Exodus Rabbah argues that when the Pharaoh instructed midwives to throw male children into the Nile, Amram divorced Jochebed, who was three months pregnant with Moses at the time, arguing that there was no justification for the Israelite men to father children if they were just to be killed ; however, the text goes on to state that Miriam, his daughter, chided him for his lack of care for his wife's feelings, persuading him to recant and marry Jochebed again.

He refuses to recant his teachings despite the risk of excommunication.

This caused Joseph to recant and reveal his identity.

Cathars who refused to recant were hanged, or burnt at the stake.

Vicki Hutcheson, a new resident of West Memphis, would play an important role in the investigation, though she would later recant her testimony, stating her statements were fabricated due in part to coercion from police.

A plague the same year caused Sigehere and his people to recant their Christianity and Essex reverted to Paganism a third time.

* 1633 – The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe.

The citadel of the reformatory movement was Oxford, where Wycliffe's most active helpers were ; these were laid under the ban and summoned to recant, and Nicholas of Hereford went to Rome to appeal.

When they started, the other sects were quite strong and growing, but by the 14th century the Waldensians had been driven underground and the Cathars ( no relation to Catholics ) had been slaughtered en masse or forced to recant.

Celestine found that the title Theotokos was orthodox, and authorized Cyril to ask Nestorius to recant.

Due to his decision to not recant his beliefs, he was denied an international visa, and his income plummeted.

Despite an early friendship and encouragement for his teachings, Urban was responsible for summoning Galileo to Rome in 1633 to recant his work.

Ackroyd notes that More explicitly " approved of Burning " After the case of John Tewkesbury, a London leather-seller found guilty by More of harbouring banned books and sentenced to burning for refusing to recant, More declared: he " burned as there was neuer wretche I wene better worthy.

* June 15 – Pope Leo X issues the bull Exsurge Domine ( Arise O Lord ), threatening Martin Luther with excommunication if he does not recant his position on indulgences and other Catholic doctrines.

* June 5 – The Council of Constance condemns the writings of John Wycliffe and asks Jan Hus to recant in public his heresy ; after his denial, he is tried for heresy, excommunicated, then sentenced to be burned at the stake.

Outraged, Don Salvador demanded that his son recant publicly.

Nestorius ' dispute with Cyril had led the latter to seek validation from Pope Celestine I, who authorized Cyril to request that Nestorius recant his position or face excommunication.

The Pope agreed and gave Cyril his authority to serve a notice to Nestorius to recant his views within ten days or else be excommunicated.

Diaghilev challenged Ravel to a duel, but friends persuaded Diaghilev to recant.

Falun Gong practitioner Tang Yongjie was allegedly tortured by prison guards, who applied hot rods to his legs, in an attempt to force him to recant his beliefs.

It is said that the prince of Wales ( afterwards Henry V ) witnessed the execution and offered the sufferer both life and a pension if he would recant ; but in Walsingham ’ s words, “ the abandoned villain declined the prince ’ s advice, and chose rather to be burned than to give reverence to the life-giving sacrament.