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3 unusual facts about John Penry


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However it was discovered there and the head of the movement, John Penry, was later hanged.

John Penry

It was successively located at East Moulsey (Surrey), Fawsley (Northamptonshire), Coventry and other places in Warwickshire, and finally at Manchester, where it was seized in August 1589.

Archbishop Whitgift, angry at the implied criticism, had him brought before the High Commission and imprisoned for about a month.



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