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BRADFORD, JOHN (1510?—1555)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 370 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BRADFORD, See also:JOHN (1510?—1555) , See also:English See also:Protestant See also:martyr, was See also:born at See also:Manchester in the See also:early See also:part of the reign of See also:Henry VIII., and educated at the See also:local See also:grammar school. Being a See also:good penman and accountant, he became secretary to See also:Sir John See also:Harrington, paymaster of the English forces in See also:France. Brad-See also:ford at this See also:time was See also:gay and thoughtless, and to support his extravagance he seems to have appropriated some of the See also:money entrusted to him; but he afterwards made full restitution. In See also:April 1547 he took See also:chambers in the Inner See also:Temple, and began to study See also:law; but finding divinity more congenial, he removed, in the following See also:year, to St Catharine's See also:Hall, See also:Cambridge, where he studied with such assiduity that in little more than a year he was admitted by See also:special See also:grace to the degree of See also:master of arts, and was soon after made See also:fellow of See also:Pembroke Hall, the fellowship being " See also:worth seven See also:pound a year." One of his pupils was John See also:Whitgift. See also:Bishop See also:Ridley, who in '1550 was translated to the see of See also:London, sent for him and appointed him his See also:chaplain. In 1553 he was also made chaplain to See also:Edward VI., and became one of the most popular preachers in the See also:kingdom, earning high praise from John See also:Knox. Soon after the See also:accession of See also:Mary he was arrested on a See also:charge of See also:sedition, and confined in the See also:Tower and the See also:king's See also:bench See also:prison for a year and a See also:half. During this time he wrote several epistles which were dispersed in various parts of the kingdom. He was at last brought to trial (See also:January 1554/5) before the See also:court in which Bishop See also:Gardiner sat as See also:chief, and, refusing to retract his principles, was condemned as a heretic and burnt, with John See also:Leaf, in Smithfield on the 1st of See also:July 1555. His writings, which consist chiefly of sermons, meditations, tracts, letters and prayers, were edited by A. Townsend for the See also:Parker Society (2 vols. 8vo, Cambridge, 1848-1853).

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