John Pullayne

, a Yorkshire Man born, was educated in New Coll. of which he was either Clerk or Chaplain, or both successively, and in the Year 1547. being then 3 years standing Master of Arts and thirty years of Age, was admitted one of the Senior Students, of Ch. Ch. and much in esteem for his Lat. and English Poetry. About that time he became a frequent Preacher and a zealous Reformer, but when Qu. Mary came to the Crown, he absconded and preached privately to the brethren in the Parish of St. Michael on Cornhill in London, where I find him in 1556. Afterwards he was forced beyond the Seas to Geneva, but returned when Qu. Elizab. was in the regal Throne, and had the Archdeaconry of Colchester bestowed on him, (lately enjoyed by Dr. Hugh. Weston) besides other spiritualities. He hath written,

Tract against the Arrians.—And translated into English verse. (1) The Ecclesiastes of Salomon. (2) Hist. of Susanna. (3) Hist. of Judith. (4) Hist. of Hester. (5) Testament of the 12. Patriarchs. He went the way of all flesh, 1565 in Fifteen hundred sixty and five, which is all I know of him, only that after his death fell out a controversie among his Relations for his estate, under pretence that his Children were illegitimate, because he had taken to him a Wife in K. Edwards Reign. The Reader is to understand that there was one John Pollayne an Oxfordshire Man born, elected and admitted Prob. Fellow of Merton Coll. in 1507. but what he hath written I know not, he being altogether different from the former, notwithstanding Baleus is pleased to tell (n)(n) In lib. De script. cent. 9. nu. 83. us, that the said former Pullayne the Writer, was of Merton Coll. which is false.