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length being let loose , and banished , he travelled into Italy , and at Ferrara he was made a Doctor of Physic . In the latter end of K . Henry VI 11 . he lived at Cologn , and other places in Germany . —Returning , when K . Fidward VI . reigned , " besides a
prebendship from the Arch bishop of York , he had *• a carionry of Windsor and the deanery of Wells" given him by the King . About which time , he was incorporated ' * Doctor of Physic" at Oxford . "He procured a licence to read and to preach , as many laymen did that were scholars : nractised his did that were scholars ; practised his
faculty among the nobility and gentry , and became physician to Edward , Duke of Somerset , Lord Protector . After Q . Mary came to the crown , he went into German } 7 , with several English theologists , thence to Rome , and afterwards , for a time , settled at Basil . But when Q . Elizabeth
succeeded , he returned , and was restored to his deanery . " Besides several pieces , against the Roman Catholics , he published ** A Preservative or Triacle against the Poison of Pelagius , lately renewed , and stirred up again , by the furious sect of the Anabaptists . London , 155 1 , "
12 mo . which book being dedicated to Hugh Latimer , was ushered into the world by several copies of Latin and English verses set before and at the end of it , made by Nich . Grimoald , of Merton College ; Thomas Norton , of Sharpenhoe ; Randal Harleston , or Huddleston ; and Thomas Soame , a preacher .
Though Pelagius does not appear to have impugned the Trinity ; yet , it can scarcely be doubted that Anabaptists , in 1551 , accused of Pelagianism , were also A nti-Trinita rians . Dr . Turner wrote several pieces , more in the way of . his medical profession ; one entitled «* Of the Nature and Virtue of Triacle /'
By this double use of Triacle , he was not unlike Bishop Berkeley , who recommended , even in the same pamphlet , tar-water and the Trinity . Dr . Turner died in 1568 . No . £ 29 # p . 512 . " Alexander
Gillborn in Lincolnshire , 1564 , admitted scholar of Corp . Christ . Coll . 1583 , In 159 O , left the College and became an instructor of youth / 1 probably " in the city of Norwich , where he lived 1597 , and then wrote his treatise of
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the Trinity . In 1608 he became the chief master of St . Paul's school , was esteemed a noted Latiiiist , critic and divine . His works are " Treatise concerning the Trinity in Unity of the Deity . Lond . 1601 , 8 vo . written to Thomas Mannering % an Anabaptist , who denied that Jesus is very God of very God .
" Sacred Philosophy of Holy hcripture , or a Commentary on the Creed . Lond . 1635 , toh ' At the end of which is printed , also , his Treatise of the Trinity , before-mentioned , lie died
17 th Nov . 1635 . " Dr . Knight mentions Gill among the masters of St , Paul ' s school , Life of Colet , p . 378 , but gives no particulars except from Wood .
Fasti , p . 840 , ' 1-621 . " George Walker , B . D . born at Hawkeshead , in Lancashire , educated in St . John ' s College , Cambridge , where he was esteemed an excellent Logician , Orientalian and Divine . When Walker
who was a severe Puritan , beheld the profanation of the Lord ' s day , he preached against it , ai > d other practices and opinions , which procured him trouble and two years imprisonment , as it is said . After the Long Parliament began , he preached against
the King and his followers , and published several things , which before he was not permitted to do , among which were , Socinianism in the Fundamental Point of Justification Discovered and Confuted . Lond . 1641 , 8 vo . He died in 1651 , aged about 70 . "
At the close of the first volume of the A thence , is the following account of a Socinian , whose political propensities were such as have not been common among Christians who indulged in free inquiry :
Fasti , p . 901 , 1640 . " John Webberley , of Lin col ne College , B . D . the son of Thomas W . of East-fcirbey , in Lincolnshire , was now esteemed by all a high-flown Socinian , and afterwards a desperate zealot for the King ' s cause , in the grand Rebellion . He had translated into English several Socinian books : some of which he
had published without bis name set to them : and others which were lying X > y him , were taken out of his study by the parliamentarian Visiters , an . 1648 , in which year he Buffered
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594 Early British Anti-Trinitarians .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1817, page 594, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2469/page/22/
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