John Terry (priest)
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John Terry (c.1555–1625) was a Church of England clergyman and anti-Catholic controversialist.
Educated at New College, Oxford, he was elected a fellow of the college until taking the living of Stockton, Wiltshire in 1590. The Triall of Truth attacked Roman Catholicism.
Works
[edit]- The Triall of Truth, 1600
- The second part of the trial of truth, 1602
- The reasonablenesse of wise and holy truth, 1617
- Theologicall Logicke: or the third part of the Tryall of truth, 1625
References
[edit]- Stephen Wright, ‘Terry, John (c.1555–1625)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 20 Dec 2007
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- 1550s births
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