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After losing her husband, she became very active in sheltering clandestine Catholic priests , which was illegal in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Finally arrested, she was condemned to death and executed at Tyburn. A recent scholarly and extensively annotated biography has been published by Roger Scully S. She was born circa the early s, and at some time in the early s converted to the Roman Catholic Church along with her brother William and Roger Line, the man she married in February Among Catholics, the married "Alice" became known as "Anne", presumably a name she took at her conversion.

Roger Line and William Higham were arrested together while attending Mass , and were imprisoned and fined. Line received a small allowance from the King of Spain, part of which he sent regularly to his wife until his death around Around the same time, John Gerard opened a house of refuge for hiding priests, and put the newly widowed Anne Line in charge of it, despite her chronic ill-health.

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He was eventually transferred to the Tower of London where he was tortured, and from which he escaped. Line was arrested on 2 February when her house was raided during the feast of the Purification , also known as Candlemas. On this day a blessing of candles traditionally takes place before the Mass, and it was during this rite that the raiders burst in and made arrests.

The priest, Fr Francis Page, managed to slip into a special hiding place prepared by Anne Line and afterwards to escape, but she was arrested, along with another gentlewoman called Margaret Gage. Gage was released on bail and later pardoned, but Line was sent to Newgate Prison. She was tried at the Sessions House on Old Bailey Lane on 26 February and was so weak from fever that she was carried to the trial in a chair.

She told the court that, so far from regretting having concealed a priest, she only grieved that she "could not receive a thousand more. Line was hanged on 27 February