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Born July 2, 1489 • England
Died March 21, 1556 (aged 66) • Oxford • England
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John Foxe
English Puritan preacher and author
Peter Martyr Vermigli
Peter Martyr Vermigli
Italian religious reformer
Hugh Le Despenser
English noble, the younger [died 1326]
John Calvin
John Calvin
French theologian
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
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Edward Hyde, 1st earl of Clarendon
English statesman
Martin Bucer, medal by Friedrich Hagenauer, 1543; in the Archives and Library of the City of Strasbourg.
Martin Bucer
Protestant religious reformer
William Laud
William Laud
archbishop of Canterbury
Thomas Müntzer
Thomas Müntzer
German religious reformer
Thomas Wentworth, 1st earl of Strafford
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Mary I
Mary I
queen of England
Latimer, detail of a panel painting by an unknown artist, 1555; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Hugh Latimer
English Protestant
Schwenckfeld, detail from a portrait by an unknown artist, 1556; in the Schwenkfelder Library, Pennsburg, Pa.
Kaspar Schwenckfeld von Ossig
German theologian
Theodore Beza
Theodore Beza
French theologian
Edward Seymour, 1st duke of Somerset
Protector of England
Sebastian Franck
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Guillaume Farel.
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