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FLOYD, JOHN (1572–1649)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 573 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FLOYD, See also:JOHN (1572–1649) , See also:English Jesuit, was See also:born in See also:Cambridgeshire in 1572. He entered the Society of Jesus when at See also:Rome in 1592 and is also known as See also:Daniel a Jesu, Hermannus Loemelius, and See also:George See also:White, the names under which he published a See also:score of controversial See also:treatises. He had considerable fame both as a preacher and teacher, and was frequently arrested in See also:England. His last years were spent at See also:Louvain and he died at St Omer on the 15th of See also:September 1649. His See also:brother See also:Edward Floyd was impeached and sentenced by the See also:Commons in 1621 for speaking disparagingly of the elector See also:palatine.

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