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

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