JOHN

This Portrait of

BRADFORD

taken by permission from a Painting in their possession,

respectfully inscribed, by their grateful & obedient Serv

THE EDITOR.

Martyrological Biography.

MEMOIRS

OF THE

LIFE AND MARTYRDOM

JOHN

BRADFORD, M. A.

Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge;

WITH

HIS EXAMINATIONS, LETTERS, &c.

ARRANGED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER.

TOGETHER WITH

A Translation of

BISHOP GARDINER'S BOOK, "DE VERA OBEDIENTIA," AND BONNER'S
"PREFATORY LETTER;"

BOTH IN DEFENCE OF THE SUPREMACY AND OF THE DIVORCE OF HENRY VIII.

"Ea sunt vetustissima Ecclesiæ martyria, quorum lectione piorum animus ita afficitur, ut
nunquam satur inde recedat. Quod quidem ita esse, unusquisque pro suo et couscientiæ modo
sentire potest.
Certè ego nihil unquam in Historia Ecclesiastica vidi, a cujus lectione
commotior recedam, ut non amplius meus esse videar."-Jos. SCALIGer.

BY WILLIAM STEVENS.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR R. FENN, HOMER'S HEAD, CHARING CROSS;
AND T. STEVENSON, CAMBRIDGE.

MDCCCXXXII.

STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY

1886

47367
OF WISCONSIN.