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... King's college in Cambridge , 1512 , where he was elected provost in 1528 , and continued in that office till his death . Being recommended to cardinal Wolsey as a man of an acute spirit and political turn , he was taken into his ser ...
... King's college in Cambridge , 1512 , where he was elected provost in 1528 , and continued in that office till his death . Being recommended to cardinal Wolsey as a man of an acute spirit and political turn , he was taken into his ser ...
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... king's marriage and divorce , in the collec- tion of records at the end of Burnet's first volume of the " History of the Reformation . " FOX ( FRANCIS ) , an English clergyman , of whose early history we have no account , was educated ...
... king's marriage and divorce , in the collec- tion of records at the end of Burnet's first volume of the " History of the Reformation . " FOX ( FRANCIS ) , an English clergyman , of whose early history we have no account , was educated ...
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... king , Fox solicited an audience , and remonstrated with him very freely upon the measure , as what must bring shame and ruin on himself and his posterity . He also addressed a paper to the heads and governors of the nation , on ...
... king , Fox solicited an audience , and remonstrated with him very freely upon the measure , as what must bring shame and ruin on himself and his posterity . He also addressed a paper to the heads and governors of the nation , on ...
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... king's subjects . " After being acquitted , he went to Holland , and on his return a suit was instituted against him for refusing to pay tithes ; his opponents were successful , and he was obliged to submit to the conse- quences . In ...
... king's subjects . " After being acquitted , he went to Holland , and on his return a suit was instituted against him for refusing to pay tithes ; his opponents were successful , and he was obliged to submit to the conse- quences . In ...
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... King's college , in Cambridge , and became afterwards an eminent physician at London . Besides what has been mentioned , Fox wrote , 1. " De Censura , seu Excommunicatione Ecclesiastica , Interpella- tio ad Archiepiscopum Cantuariensem ...
... King's college , in Cambridge , and became afterwards an eminent physician at London . Besides what has been mentioned , Fox wrote , 1. " De Censura , seu Excommunicatione Ecclesiastica , Interpella- tio ad Archiepiscopum Cantuariensem ...
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