Henry Pendleton

, a zealous man for the R. Cath. Cause, was born in Lancashire, became a Student in Brasnose Coll. about the year 1538, took the Degrees in Arts, and afterwards those in Divinity in the Reign of K. Ed. 6. he being then beneficed and dignified in the Church. In the Reign of Qu. Marie he shew’d himself so grand a Zealot for the Cause then professed in several Sermons by him preached, that when in one by him delivered at Pauls Cross, (which was very sharp against the Hereticks, as they were then called) a Gun was discharged at, but miss’d, him. Under his Name were these things following printed.

Homilies to be read in the Churches within the dioc. of London. Lond. 1554. 55. qu.

Communication between him and Mr. Lour. Sanders.

Disputation between him and Mr. Joh. Bradford.

Protestants. an. 1555.

The Contents or part of which Communic and Disput. you may see in the book of Acts and Mon. of the Church, &c. and also Pendleton’s Arguings with Bartlet Green, and certain Protestant Martyrs. Other things he hath written, which I have not yet seen, and was always accounted a learned Doctor of his time, and so endear’d to the Cath. Religion, that he made a solemn Protestation in Qu. Maries Reign, that he would see the nntermost drop of his Grease molten away, and the last gobbet of his Flesh consumed to Ashes before he would forsake God and his truth. Clar. 1561. He lived after Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown, and was imprison’d for a time, but when, or where he died, I know not.