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Francis Newton (priest)

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recommended Newton to Elizabeth as a potential new head of Jesus College, but nothing came of the suggestion. Later, in 1564, Elizabeth visited Trinity, and Newton was presented to her with other Doctors of Divinity to dispute on whether a civil magistrate has authority in ecclesiastical matters.
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Francis Newton was born to Sir John Newton of Cradock, Gloucestershire (d. 1568) and his wife Margaret. John Newton and Margaret had twenty children together, though not many grew into adulthood. Francis Newton attended
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Newton's position on the question was not recorded, but he left an impression on the Royal visitor. Less than a year later, Elizabeth appointed Newton as the
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in 1559, and Newton was installed in April 1560. After, Newton returned as a fellow to Trinity and received his D.D. in 1563. The Master of Trinity College,
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Francis Newton lived out his remaining years at Winchester peacefully. He died in November 1572, when his brother Henry was given control of his estate.
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on 12 May 1565. Elizabeth may have remembered Francis Newton years later in 1569, when she recommended he replace the recently deceased prebend of
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or face expulsion. Newton complied, though his brother Theodore Newton, also a priest, refused. Theodore fled
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and received his B.A in 1549, and M.A. in 1553. After receiving his M.A., Newton was elected as a fellow at
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Alumni Cantabrigienses: a Biographical List of All Known Students etc. of the University of Cambridge,
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A Collection of Letters, Statutes and Other Documents from the Library of Corpus Christi College
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three months later. He died peacefully in 1569, though he was not succeeded by his brother as
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The Marian Exiles: A Study in the Origins of Elizabethan Puritanism
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The Elizabethan Clergy and the Settlement of Religion, 1558-1564
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Correspondence of Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury,
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required all clergy at Cambridge to subscribe to orthodox
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The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth,
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online (ODNB)
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Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Elizabeth I: 1563-1566
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Dean
Winchester Cathedral
Michaelhouse, Cambridge
Trinity College
Jesus College
Queen Mary
Catholic doctrine
England
John Knox's
Geneva
Queen Elizabeth
prebendary
North Newbald
Robert Beaumont
Dean of Winchester
Canterbury Cathedral
Bishop Grindal
Archbishop Parker
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online (ODNB)
Categories
1572 deaths
Deans of Winchester

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