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JOHN FLOYD (1572–1649)

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

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