He was a bookseller, in London. He was imprisoned and hanged for selling Catholic books after the Protestant Reformation had taken over England. As he was dying, this is what he said to his fellow countrymen: “It is as impossible for anyone to be saved outside the Catholic Church as it was for anyone to avoid the deluge who was outside Noah’s Ark.”
The infamous “Tyburn Tree,” where James Duckett was executed (source)
