Francis Ingleby

Venerable Francis Ingleby (c.1551 – June 3 1586) was a Roman Catholic martyr executed in York, England during the reign of Elizabeth I.

He has been described as short but well-made, fair-complexioned, with a chestnut beard, and a slight cast in his eyes. He was the fourth son of Sir William Ingleby and Anne Malory. He was likely a scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford, (c.1565), and was a student of the Inner Temple by 1576. On August 18 1582 he arrived at the English College, Reims, where he lived at his own expense. He was ordained a year later as a subdeacon on May 28, a deacon on September 24, and a priest on December 24. He left for England April 5 1584 and he preached with great enthusiasm in York, where he was arrested in the spring of 1586. He was one of the priests whom the Venerable Margaret Clitherow was arraigned for harbouring. He was condemned for being a priest. When sentence was pronounced he exclaimed, "Credo videre bona Domini in terra viventium". At the prison door, while shackles were being fastened on his legs he smilingly said, "I fear me I shall be overproud of my boots."