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VENN: Adm. at ST CATHARINE'S, c. Aug. 1548. B. in Manchester, c. 1510. School, Manchester. M.A. (by special grace) 1549. Fellow of Pembroke, 1549. For some time in the service of Sir John Harrington; was deputy pay-master at the siege of Montreuil, 1544. Adm. at the Inner Temple, 1547. Ord. deacon (London) Aug. 10, 1550. Preb. of St Paul's, 1551. Chaplain to the King. Committed to the Tower, 1553, on the charge of seditious preaching. Condemned of heresy, 1555. Burnt at Smithfield, July 1, 1555. (Cooper, I. 127; D.N.B.)
SEE OXFORD DNB (c.1510-1555), evangelical preacher and martyr