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GREENWOOD, JOHN (d. 1593)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 555 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GREENWOOD, See also:JOHN (d. 1593) , See also:English Puritan and Separatist (the date and See also:place of his See also:birth are unknown), entered as a See also:sizar at Corpus Christi See also:College, See also:Cambridge, on the 18th of See also:March 1577—1 578, and commenced B.A. 1581. Whether he was directly influenced by the teaching of See also:Robert See also:Browne (q.v.), a See also:graduate of the same college, is uncertain; in any See also:case he held strong Puritan opinions, which ultimately led him to Separatism of the most rigid type. In 1581 he was See also:chaplain to See also:Lord See also:Rich, at See also:Rochford, See also:Essex. At some unspecified See also:time he had been made See also:deacon by John See also:Aylmer, See also:bishop of See also:London, and See also:priest by See also:Thomas See also:Cooper, bishop of See also:Lincoln; but ere See also:long he renounced this ordination as " wholly unlawful.". Details of the next few years are lacking; but by 1586 he was the recognized See also:leader of the London Separatists, of whom a considerable number had been imprisoned at various times since 1567. Greenwood was arrested See also:early in See also:October 1586, and the following May was committed to the See also:Fleet See also:prison for an indefinite time, in See also:default of See also:bail for conformity. During his imprisonment he wrote some controversial tracts in See also:conjunction with his See also:fellow-prisoner See also:Henry See also:Barrowe (q.v.). He is understood to have been at See also:liberty in the autumn of 1588; but this may have been merely " theliberty of the prison." However, he was certainly at large in See also:September 1592, when he was elected " teacher " of the Separatist See also:church. Meanwhile he had written (ISgo) " An See also:Answer to See also:George See also:Gifford's pretended See also:Defence of Read Prayers." On the 5th of See also:December he was again arrested; and the following March was tried, together with Barrowe, and condemned to See also:death on a See also:charge of " devising and circulating seditious books." After two respites, one at the See also:foot of the gallows, he was hanged on the 6th of See also:April 1593.

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