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JOHN LAMBERT [alias NICHOLSON] (d. 1538)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 108 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:LAMBERT [See also:alias See also:NICHOLSON] (d. 1538)  , See also:English See also:Protestant See also:martyr, was See also:born at See also:Norwich and educated at See also:Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. and was admitted in 1521 a See also:fellow of See also:Queen's See also:College on the nomination of See also:Catherine of See also:Aragon . After acting for some years as a " See also:mass-See also:priest," his views were unsettled by the arguments of See also:Bilney and See also:Arthur; and episcopal persecution compelled him, according to his own See also:account, to assume the name See also:Lambert instead of See also:Nicholson . He likewise removed to See also:Antwerp, where he became See also:chaplain to the English factory, and formed a friendship with See also:Frith and See also:Tyndale . Returning to See also:England in 1531, he came under the See also:notice of See also:Archbishop See also:Warham, who questioned him closely on his religious beliefs . Warham's See also:death in See also:August 1532 relieved Lambert from immediate danger, and he earned a living for some years by teaching Latin and See also:Greek near the See also:Stocks See also:Market in See also:London . The See also:duke of See also:Norfolk and other reactionaries accused him of See also:heresy in 1536, but reforming tendencies were still in the ascendant, and Lambert escaped . In 1538, however, the reaction had begun, and Lambert was its first victim . He singled himself out for persecution by denying the Real Presence: and See also:Henry VIII., who had just rejected the Lutheran proposals for a theological See also:union, was in no See also:mood to tolerate worse heresies . Lambert had challenged some views expressed by Dr See also:John See also:Taylor, afterwards See also:bishop of See also:Lincoln; and See also:Cranmer as See also:arch-bishop condemned Lambert's opinions . He appealed to the See also:king as supreme See also:head of the See also:Church, and on the 16th of See also:November Henry heard the See also:case in See also:person before a large See also:assembly of spiritual and temporal peers . For five See also:hours Lambert disputed with the king and ten bishops; and then, as he boldly denied that the See also:Eucharist was the See also:body of See also:Christ, he was condemned to death by See also:Cromwell as vicegerent . Henry's condescension and See also:patience produced a See also:great impression on his See also:Catholic subjects; but Cromwell is said by See also:Foxe to have asked Lambert's See also:pardon before his See also:execution, and Cranmer eventually adopted the views he condemned in Lambert .

Lambert was burnt at Smithfield on the 22nd of November . See Letters and Papers of Henry VIII.; Foxe's Acts and Monuments; See also:

Froude, See also:History; See also:Dixon, Church History; See also:Gairdner, Lollardy and the See also:Reformation, Dict. of Nat . Biog. and authorities there cited . (A . F .

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