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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 688 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLOCK (or WILLOCKS), JOHN (c. 1515-1585)  , Scottish reformer, was a native of
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Ayrshire and was educated at the university of
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Glasgow . After being a monk for a short time he embraced the reformed religion and went to
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London, where, about 1J42, he became
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chaplain to Henry Grey, afterwards duke of Suffolk, the
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father of Lady Jane Grey . On the accession of Mary to the
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English
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throne in 1553 he went to
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Emden in Friesland, where he practised as a physician, varying this profession with visits to Scotland . He was associated with the leading Scottish reformers in their opposition to the queen regent, Mary of
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Lorraine, and the
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Roman Catholic religion, and in 1558 he returned definitely to his native
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land . Willock now began to preach and in 1559 was outlawed . Popular sympathy, however, rendered this sentence fruitless, and in the same
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year, being Knox's deputy as minister of St Giles'
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cathedral,
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Edinburgh, he frustrated the efforts of the regent to restore the Roman Catholic religion, and administered the communion for the first time in accordance with the ideas of the reformers . He was one of the four ministers chosen by the convention of
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October 1559 to seats on the council of government, and was one of those appointed to compile the first
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book of discipline . About- 1562 he became rector of
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Loughborough in Leicestershire, but he retained his connexion with the Scottish church and was moderator of the general assembly in 1562, and again in 1564, in 1565 and in 1568 . He died at Loughborough on the 4th of December 1585 .

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