, one of the English reformers, was a native of Norfolk, or Suffolk,
, one of the English
reformers, was a native of Norfolk, or Suffolk, and educated at Cambridge, where he took his bachelor’s degree
in 1530. He was presented on May 24, 1547, to the
rectory of St. Stephen Walbrook, ol which he was deprived in 1554, and imprisoned twice in queen Mary’s
time, but escaped to Marpurg. From Strasburgh, in the
same year, we find him addressing an “Epistle to the
Faithful in England,
” exhorting them to patient perseverance in the truth. After queen Mary’s death, he returned to England, and in 1560 was preferred to the rectory of Buckland, in Hertfordshire, and in 1563 to that of
St. Dionis Backchurch, in London. He was also a prebend of the fourth stall in Canterbury cathedral, and had
been, in Cranmer’s time, chaplain to that celebrated prelate. Tanner’s account of his promotions is somewhat different. We learn from Strype, in his life of Grindall,
that he objected at first, but afterwards conformed to the
clerical dress, some articles of which at that time were
much scrupled by the reformers who had lived abroad.
He died at Canterbury, about 1570, in his sixtieth year.
In the Heerologia, a work not much to be depended on,
it is said that he was professor of divinity at Oxford, an
assertion contrary to all other authority. He wrote: