biography
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| lived:
| (c.1550–1633)
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| biography:
| Clergyman, founder of the Brownists, born in Tolethorpe, Leicestershire, C England, UK. After graduating from Cambridge (1572), he became a schoolmaster in London, and an open-air preacher. In 1580 he began to attack the established Church, and soon after formed a distinct Church on congregational principles at Norwich. Reconciling himself to the Anglican Church, he became master of Stamford grammar school (1586), and rector of Achurch, Northamptonshire (1591). Of a very violent temper, he was sent to Northampton jail at the age of 80 for an assault on a constable, and died there. |
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