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See also: bishop of See also: Hereford, was See also: born about 1496 at Dursley in See also: Gloucestershire; he is said on very doubtful authority to have been related to See also: Richard See also: Fox (q.v.)
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From See also: Eton he proceeded to See also: King's
See also: College, Cambridge, and after graduating was made secretary to See also: Wolsey
.
In 1528 he was sent with See also: Gardiner to See also: Rome to obtain from See also: Clement VII. a decretal commission for the trial and decision of the See also: case between See also: Henry VIII. and
See also: Catherine of See also: Aragon
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On his return he was elected provost of King's College, and in See also: August 1529 was the means of conveying to the king See also: Cranmer's historic advice that he should apply to the See also: universities of See also: Europe rather than to the See also: pope
.
This introduction led eventually to Cranmer's promotion over Fox's See also: head to the archbishopric of See also: Canterbury
.
After a brief See also: mission to See also: Paris in See also: October 1529, Fox in See also: January 1530 befriended See also: Latimer at
.
Cambridge and took an active See also: part in persuading that university and See also: Oxford to decide in the king's favour
.
He was sent to employ similar methods of persuasion at the French universities in 1530-1531, and was also engaged in negotiating a closer See also: league between See also: England and See also: France
.
In See also: April 1533 he was See also: prolocutor of convocation when it decided against the validity of Henry's See also: marriage with Catherine, and in 1534 published his See also: treatise De See also: vera differentia regiae potestatis et ecclesiae (second ed
.
1538, See also: English transl
.
1548)
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Various ecclesiastical preferments were now granted him, including the archdeaconry of See also: Leicester (1531) and the bishopric of Hereford (1535)
.
In 1535-1536 he was sent to See also: Germany to discuss the basis of a See also: political and theological understanding with the Lutheran princes and divines, and had several interviews with See also: Luther, who could not be persuaded of the See also: justice of Henry VIII.'s See also: divorce
.
The See also: principal result of the mission was the See also: Wittenberg articles of 1536, which had no slight influence on the English Ten Articles of the same See also: year
.
Bucer dedicated to him in 1536 his Commentaries on the Gospels, and Fox's Protestantism was also illustrated by his patronage of See also: Alexander Aless, whom he defended before Convocation
.
Fox is credited with the authorship of several proverbial sayings, such as " the surest way to
See also: peace is a See also: constant preparedness for war " and " See also: time and I will challengeany two in the See also: world." The former at any See also: rate is only a variation of the Latin si vis pacem, Para bellum, and probably the latter is not more See also: original in Fox than in See also: Philip II., to whom it is usually ascribed
.
Fox died on the 8th of May 1538 and was buried in the
See also: church of St Mary Mounthaw,
See also: London
.
His chief distinction is perhaps that he was the most Lutheran of Henry VIII.'s bishops, and was largely responsible for the Ten Articles of 1536
.
See Letters and Papers of Henry VIII., vols. iv.-xiv.; See also: Cooper's Athenae Cantabrigienses;
See also: Diet
.
Nat
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Biogr.; R
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W
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See also: Dixon's Church See also: History; G
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Mentz, Die Wittenberger A rtikel von 1536 (1905)
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