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GREENWOOD, JOHN (d. 1593)

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 555 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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GREENWOOD, JOHN (d. 1593) , English Puritan and Separatist (the date and place of his
birth
  are unknown), entered as a sizar at Corpus Christi College,
Cambridge
 , on the 18th of March 15771 578, and commenced B.A. 1581. Whether he was directly influenced by the teaching of Robert Browne (q.v.), a graduate of the same college, is uncertain; in any case he held strong Puritan opinions, which ultimately led him to Separatism of the most rigid type. In 1581 he was chaplain to Lord Rich, at Rochford, Essex. At some unspecified time he had been made deacon by John
Aylmer
 , bishop of London, and priest by
Thomas
  Cooper, bishop of Lincoln; but ere long he renounced this ordination as " wholly unlawful.". Details of the next few years are lacking; but by 1586 he was the recognized leader of the London Separatists, of whom a considerable number had been imprisoned at various times since 1567.
Greenwood
  was arrested early in October 1586, and the following May was committed to the
Fleet
  prison for an indefinite time, in default of bail for conformity. During his imprisonment he wrote some controversial tracts in conjunction with his fellow-prisoner
Henry
  Barrowe (q.v.). He is understood to have been at liberty in the autumn of 1588; but this may have been merely " theliberty of the prison." However, he was certainly at large in September 1592, when he was elected " teacher " of the Separatist church. Meanwhile he had written (ISgo) " An Answer to George
Gifford
 's pretended Defence of Read Prayers." On the 5th of December he was again arrested; and the following March was tried, together with Barrowe, and condemned to death on a charge of " devising and circulating seditious books." After two respites, one at the foot of the gallows, he was hanged on the 6th of April 1593.


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