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

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