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Nicholas Shaxton

From inquiries made at Cambridge he learned that the vice-chancellor had censured two points in a sermon which Shaxton had preached on Ash Wednesday: first, that it was wrong to assert publicly that there was no Purgatory, but not damnable to think so; and, secondly, that no man could be chaste by prayers or fasting unless God made him so.

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He was regarded, alongside Hugh Latimer and Thomas Barlow as one of the most well known new bishops of the 1530s.

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