JOHN

See also:

• STUBBS [STUBBES], PHILIP (c. 1555-c. 161o)
• JOHN STUBBS [STUnnE]
• STUBBS, WILLIAM (1825-1901)

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