Author:John PhilpotBiography:John Philpot, served as Archdeacon of Winchester. Philpot was a man of great learning, with knowledge not only of the Bible but of its languages, especially Hebrew. He was arrested and tried as a heretic, for refusing to recant his protestant beliefs. He was able to preserve secret notes about his hearings. Much of this material was later printed by John Foxe in his Actes and Monuments (better known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs). He was martyred in 1555.Books By This Author:Examinations and Letters of the Rev. John Philpot by John PhilpotThe Examinations and Writings of John Philpot by John Philpot |