From Foxe's Book of Martyrs, 1889 Edition
(from Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, 1889 edition) TRUE LIFE AND MARTYRDOM OF JOHN HOOPER, BISHOP OF WORCESTER AND GLOUCESTER. John Hooper, student and graduate in the university of Oxford, having made great advances in the study of the sciences, was stirred with a fer- vent desire to the love and knowledge of the scriptures. Advancing more and more, by God’s grace, in ripeness and spiritual understanding, and showing withal some sparks of his spirit, being then about the beginning of the six articles, in the time of king Henry VIII fell quickly into the dis- pleasure and hatred of certain doctors in Oxford, who soon discovered their enmity to him, till at length, by the procurement of Dr. Smith, he was compelled to quit the university. Removing from thence, he was re- tained in the house of Sir Thomas Arundel, in the capacity of steward, till Sir Thomas, having intelligence of his opinions and religion, which he in no case did favour, and yet exceedingly favouring the person and charac- ter of the man, found the means to send him with a message to the bishop of Winchester, writing his letter privily to the bishop, by conference of learning to do some good to him, but in any case requiring him to send home his servant to him again. The bishop received him courteously; but after long converse with him, perceiving that neither he could do that good which he thought to him, nor that he would take any good at his hand, according to Arundel’s request, sent him home again, commending his learning and wit, but yet bearing in his breast a secret enmity against him.
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