Appointed with Rev John Taylor and 30 others to reform the Cannon Laws, still in use today.
Educated at Cambridge, taught civil and cannon law there.  Was an Ecclesiastical Lawyer and an Angelican priest.
He was ordained a Priest and on April 16, 1544 Archbishop Thomas Cranmer appointed him Rector of Hadleigh in the Deanery of Bocking, A Peculiar under the Archbisop of Canterbury.  On May 3, 1552, he was appointed to Archdeaconary of Cornwall for life.
Arrested july 25, 1553 accused of being involved in the Lady Jane Grey case and released on November the 9th.
In March 1554, arrested again for objections to the Catholic Mass in his church.
Given a choice to become a Catholic priest and answered, (children would be illegitamate and wife a fallen woman) "my children are ligitamate which is more than I can say for the catholic preists'." This sealed his fate, he was tried and sentanced to death Janurary 12, 1555. On Feb. 9, 1555 he was burned at the stake in the Aldham Common, in Lavenham, Engalnd.
Martyred during the Bloody Mary Era.
Diff source has birth date as October 6, 1510