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AYLMER, JOHN (1521-1594)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 73 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AYLMER, See also:JOHN (1521-1594) , See also:English divine, was See also:born in the See also:year 1521 at Aylmer See also:Hall, Tivetshall St See also:Mary, See also:Norfolk. While still a boy, his precocity was noticed by See also:Henry See also:Grey, See also:marquis of See also:Dorset, afterwards See also:duke of See also:Suffolk, who sent him to See also:Cambridge, where he seems to have become a See also:fellow of Queens' See also:College. About 1541 he was made See also:chaplain to the duke, and See also:tutor to his daughter, See also:Lady Jane Grey. His first preferment was to the archdeaconry of See also:Stow, in the See also:diocese of See also:Lincoln, but his opposition in See also:convocation to the See also:doctrine of See also:transubstantiation led to his deprivation and to his See also:flight into See also:Switzerland. While there he wrote a reply to John See also:Knox's famous Blastagainst the Monstrous See also:Regiment of See also:Women, under the See also:title of An Harborowe for Failhfull and Trove Subjects, &'c., and assisted John See also:Foxe in translating the: Acts of the Martyrs into Latin. On the See also:accession of See also:Elizabeth he returned to See also:England. In r 559 he resumed the Stow archdeaconry, and in 1562 he obtained that of Lincoln. He was a member pf the famous convocation of 1562, which reformed and settled the doctrine and discipline of the See also:Church' of England. In 1 576 he was consecrated See also:bishop of See also:London; and while in that position made himself notorious by his harsh treatment of all who differed from him on ecclesiastical questions, whether Puritan or Papist. Various efforts were made to remove him to another see. He is frequently assailed in the famous See also:Mar See also:prelate Tracts, and is characterized as `,` Morrell," the See also:bad shepherd, in See also:Spenser's Shepheard's See also:Calendar {See also:July). His reputation as a See also:scholar hardly balances his inadequacy as a: bishop in the transition See also:time in which he lived.

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June 1594. His See also:Life was written by John See also:Strype (1701).

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