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JOHN STOKESLEY (c. 1475-1539)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 953 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:STOKESLEY (c. 1475-1539)  , See also:English See also:prelate, was See also:born at Colly See also:Weston in See also:Northamptonshire, and became a See also:fellow of Magdalen See also:College, serving also as a lecturer . In 1498 he was made See also:principal of Magdalen See also:Hall, and in 1505 See also:vice-See also:president of Magdalen College . Soon after 1509 he was appointed a member of the royal See also:council and See also:chaplain to See also:Henry VIII . In 1520 he was at the See also:Field of the See also:Cloth of See also:Gold; in 1529 and 1530 he went to See also:France and See also:Italy as See also:ambassador to See also:Francis I. and to gain opinions from See also:foreign See also:universities in favour of the See also:king's See also:divorce from See also:Catherine of See also:Aragon . In 153o he became See also:bishop of See also:London . In 1533 he christened the princess See also:Elizabeth, and his later years were troubled by disputes with See also:Archbishop See also:Cranmer . See also:Stokesley opposed all changes in the doctrines of the See also:Church and was very active in persecuting heretics . He was a See also:man of learning, See also:writing in favour of Henry's divorce, and with See also:Cuthbert See also:Tunstall, bishop of See also:Durham, a See also:treatise against See also:Cardinal See also:Pole . He died on the 8th of See also:September, 1539 .

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