Saint Edmund Jennings was executed for being a Catholic priest. He was seized by Richard Topcliffe and his officers whilst in the act of saying Mass in the house of Saint Swithun Wells and was hanged, drawn and quartered outside the same house. His execution was particularly bloody, as his final speech angered Topcliffe, who ordered the rope to be cut down when he was barely stunned from the hanging. Saint Swithun Wells was hanged immediately afterwards.