biography
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| lived:
| (c.1483–1555)
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| biography:
| Clergyman, born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, E England, UK. Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he became Wolsey's secretary in 1525. Between 1527 and 1533 he was sent to Rome to further Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragón, and was made Bishop of Winchester in 1531. He supported the royal supremacy in his De vera obedientia (1535), helped to encompass Thomas Cromwell's downfall, and was involved in framing the Six Articles. He was appointed Chancellor of Cambridge in 1540. He opposed doctrinal reformation, and for this he was imprisoned and deprived of his offices on Edward VI's accession. Released and restored by Mary I in 1553, he became an arch-persecutor of Protestants. |
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