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VENN: Studied at Cambridge, Protestant controversialist. B. near Sens. Studied at Orl;ans, in 1534. Settled in England, 1544 (letters of denisation, July 2, 1544, state that he had been eight years in England and a student at Cambridge). R. of St Alphage, Cripplegate, London, 1552-4. Imprisoned for seditious preaching, 1553-8. Preb. of St Paul's, 1559-63. R. of St Martin's, Ludgate, 1559. V. of Sepulchre's, 1560. Author, controversial, etc. Died Apr. 9, 1563. Buried in St Paul's. (D.N.B.)
SEE OXFORD DNB: VĂ©ron, Jean (d. 1563), religious writer and translator and Church of England clergyman