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Educated at Queen's College, Oxford from 1569-1572. Fellow at Queen's
College. Convert to Catholicism in 1576 at Brome, Suffolk, England.
Resigned his position at Oxford, and studied in Reims in 1580. Ordained on
4 March 1581. Returned to England in April 1581 as a missioner to the
northern counties, often disguised as a servant in the livery costume of
Lord Montacute. Assisted in his mission by Blessed John Speed. He became
the object of an intense manhunt, was betrayed by Francis Ecclesfield near
Durham on 5 July 1593 at the home of one William Claxton, and arrested. He
was sent to the Tower of London where he was crippled by being tortured on
the rack. Sent to Durham in July 1594, where he was tried for the treason
of being a priest. One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
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