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JOHN AYLMER (1521-1594)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 73 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:AYLMER (1521-1594)  , See also:English divine, was See also:born in the See also:year 1521 at See also:Aylmer See also:Hall, Tivetshall St See also:Mary, See also:Norfolk . While still a boy, his precocity was noticed by See also:Henry See also:Grey, See also:marquis of See also:Dorset, afterwards See also:duke of See also:Suffolk, who sent him to See also:Cambridge, where he seems to have become a See also:fellow of Queens' See also:College . About 1541 he was made See also:chaplain to the duke, and See also:tutor to his daughter, See also:Lady Jane Grey . His first preferment was to the archdeaconry of See also:Stow, in the See also:diocese of See also:Lincoln, but his opposition in See also:convocation to the See also:doctrine of See also:transubstantiation led to his deprivation and to his See also:flight into See also:Switzerland . While there he wrote a reply to See also:John See also:Knox's famous Blastagainst the Monstrous See also:Regiment of See also:Women, under the See also:title of An Harborowe for Failhfull and Trove Subjects, &'c., and assisted John See also:Foxe in translating the: Acts of the Martyrs into Latin . On the See also:accession of See also:Elizabeth he returned to See also:England . In r 559 he resumed the Stow archdeaconry, and in 1562 he obtained that of Lincoln . He was a member pf the famous convocation of 1562, which reformed and settled the doctrine and discipline of the See also:Church' of England . In 1 576 he was consecrated See also:bishop of See also:London; and while in that position made himself notorious by his harsh treatment of all who differed from him on ecclesiastical questions, whether Puritan or Papist . Various efforts were made to remove him to another see . He is frequently assailed in the famous See also:Mar See also:prelate Tracts, and is characterized as `,` Morrell," the See also:bad shepherd, in See also:Spenser's Shepheard's See also:Calendar {See also:July) . His reputation as a See also:scholar hardly balances his inadequacy as a: bishop in the transition See also:time in which he lived .

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June 1594 . His See also:Life was written by John See also:Strype (1701) .

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