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JOHN STORY (c. 1510-1571)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 969 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:STORY (c. 1510-1571)  , See also:English See also:martyr, was educated at See also:Oxford, where he became lecturer on See also:civil See also:law in 1535, being made later See also:principal of Broadgates See also:Hall, afterwards See also:Pembroke See also:College . He appears to have disavowed his See also:Roman See also:Catholic opinions just after the See also:accession of See also:Edward VI., but having been chosen a member of See also:parliament in 1547 he gained notoriety by his opposition to the See also:act of uniformity in 1548 . For crying out " Woe unto thee, 0 See also:land, when thy See also:king is a See also:child," he was imprisoned by the See also:House of See also:Commons, but he was soon released and went into See also:exile . Returning to See also:England in 1553, he resigned his position at Oxford, which was now that of regius See also:professor of civil law, and was made See also:chancellor of the dioceses of See also:London and of Oxford and See also:dean of See also:arches . See also:Queen See also:Mary being now on the See also:throne, See also:Story was one of her most active agents in prosecuting heretics, and was one of her proctors at the trial of See also:Cranmer at Oxford in 1555 . Under See also:Elizabeth he was again returned to parliament, but in 156o he underwent a See also:short imprisonment for boasting about his See also:work in the former reign . In 1563 he was again arrested, but managed to See also:escape to See also:Flanders, where he became a pensioner of See also:Philip II. of See also:Spain . The See also:duke of See also:Alva authorized him to exclude certain classes of books from the See also:Netherlands and, in 1570, while engaged in this work, he was decoyed on to a See also:ship at See also:Antwerp and conveyed to See also:Yarmouth . In spite of his claim that he was a See also:Spanish subject, he was tried for high See also:treason, and executed at See also:Tyburn on the 1st of See also:June 1J71 . In 1886 Story was beatified by papal See also:decree .

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