Thomas Beccon or Becon (c. 1511–1567) was an English cleric and Protestant reformer from Norfolk. Beccon was born c.1511 in Norfolk, England. He entered...
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Thomas Gordon, who wrote the seminal work Cato's Letters between 1720 and 1723. Other members include Robert Crowley, Henry Brinkelow, Thomas Beccon,...
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reforms, sharing a vision of his contemporaries Hugh Latimer, Thomas Lever, Thomas Beccon and others of England as a reformed Christian commonwealth. He...
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used since at least the 16th century; it appears in a 1542 tract by Thomas Beccon, a Protestant clergyman from Norfolk. Apparently, a similar expression...
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Thomas Sébillet, French writer on poetry (died 1589) Unknown dates Thomas Beccon, English Protestant reformer and writer (died 1567) Cristóvão Falcão...
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he secured a valuable patent to print the works of John Ponet and Thomas Beccon. This enraged one of his competitors, Reginald Wolfe, who already held...
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November 19 – Takeda Yoshinobu, Japanese daimyō (b. 1538) date unknown Thomas Beccon, English Protestant reformer (b. 1511) Péter Erdődy, ban of Croatia...
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Zurich after Knox left) teaching Greek, and Traheron teaching theology. Thomas Beccon came from Strasbourg to Frankfurt; he taught at Marburg University around...
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additional material for a book of homilies by Jean Calvin (1553). With Thomas Beccon, John Jewel and Edwin Sandys, he was one of the commissioners of 1559...
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November 19 – Takeda Yoshinobu, Japanese daimyō (b. 1538) date unknown Thomas Beccon, English Protestant reformer (b. 1511) Péter Erdődy, ban of Croatia...
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