9 February 1555 A.D. Bishop John Hooper (Gloucester) Burned at the Stake
9 February 1555 A.D. Bishop John Hooper (Gloucester) Burned at the Stake Editors. “Bishop John Hooper.” The Reformation. 18 Jul 2011. http://www.thereformation.info/john_hooper.htm . Accessed 6 Feb 2014. Bishop John Hooper ( 1495-1555) Born in Somerset in 1495 John Hooper studied at Merton College, Oxford in 1515 and was tutored there by his uncle, also John Hooper, and gained his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1518. For some years after he joined with the Cistercian monks but eventually returned to Oxford where he became enthused with Lutheranism through books bought from Germany. His enthusiasm for Protestantism led Hooper into a wandering lifestyle that saw him travelling on the continent, residing in several English jails, and disputing with the papists through the reigns of Henry VIiI, Edward VI, until his death in the reign of `Bloody Mary` Tudor. He was probably one of the busiest clerics of his day and also one...