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JOHN STUBBS [STUnnE]

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 1048 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:STUBBS [STUnnE]  (c . 1543-1590, See also:English pamphleteer, was See also:born in See also:Norfolk about 1543 . He was educated at Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, and after studying See also:law at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn, took up his See also:residence at Thelveton, Norfolk . His views were Puritan, and he regarded with disgust the negotiations for a See also:marriage between See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth and the See also:duke of See also:Anjou . In 1579 he put his opinions into a pamphlet entitled The Discoverie of a Gaping Gulf whereinto See also:England is like to be Swallowed by another See also:French Marriage . The circulation of this pamphlet was prohibited, and See also:Stubbs,* his printer, and publisher were tried at See also:Westminster', found guilty, and sentenced to have their right hands cut off . The printer was subsequently pardoned, but in the See also:case of Stubbs and his publisher the See also:sentence was duly carried out . Stubbs protested his See also:loyalty from the first . His right See also:hand having been cut off, he removed his See also:hat with his See also:left, and cried " See also:God See also:Save the Queen!" before fainting away . He was subsequently imprisoned for eighteen months . On being released he continued to write, See also:publishing, among other See also:pamphlets, a reply to See also:Cardinal See also:Allen's See also:Defence of the English Catholics . He died in 1591 at See also:Havre, See also:France, where he seems to have gone to volunteer for military service under See also:Henry of See also:Navarre .

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