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Thomas Slythurst

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English confessor, born in Berkshire; died in the Tower of London, 1560. He was B.A. Oxon, 1530; M.A., 1534; B.D., 1543; and supplicated for the degree of D.D., 1554-5, but never took it. He was rector of Chalfont St. Peter, Bucks, from 1545 to 1555, canon of Windsor 1554, rector of Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks, 1555, and first President of Trinity College, Oxford. He was deprived of these three preferments in 1559. On 11 Nov., 1556, he was appointed with others by Convocation to regulate the exercises in theology on the election of Cardinal Pole to the chancellorship.

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WARTON, Life of Sir Thomas Pope (London, 1772), 359; Catholic Record Society Publications, I (London, 1905-), 118; FOX, Acts and Monuments, VIII (London, 1843-9), 636.

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Obstat, Nihil. Lafort, Remy, Censor. Entry for 'Thomas Slythurst'. The Catholic Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​t/thomas-slythurst.html. Robert Appleton Company. New York. 1914.
 
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