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

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