John Hullier or Hulliarde, Huller or Hullyer, ( – 16 April 1556) was an English
clergyman
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and a
Protestant
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martyr
A martyr (, ''mártys'', 'witness' Word stem, stem , ''martyr-'') is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, or refusing to renounce or advocate, a religious belief or other cause as demanded by an external party. In ...
under
Mary I of England
Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain as the wife of King Philip II from January 1556 until her death in 1558. She made vigorous ...
.
He was a chorister in the
Choir of King's College, Cambridge
The Choir of King's College, Cambridge is an English Anglican choir. It was created by Henry VI of England, King Henry VI, who founded King's College, Cambridge, in 1441, to provide daily singing in his King's College Chapel, Cambridge, Chapel, ...
before attending
Eton College
Eton College ( ) is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school providing boarding school, boarding education for boys aged 13–18, in the small town of Eton, Berkshire, Eton, in Berkshire, in the United Kingdom. It has educated Prime Mini ...
and then returning to
King's College, Cambridge
King's College, formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, is a List of colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college lies beside the River Cam and faces ...
as an undergraduate. He became vicar of
Babraham
Babraham is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the South Cambridgeshire district of Cambridgeshire, England, about south-east of Cambridge on the A1307 road.
Babraham is home to the Babraham Institute which undertakes res ...
, Cambridgeshire in 1549 until he was deprived in February 1556.
For his preaching in
King's Lynn
King's Lynn, known until 1537 as Bishop's Lynn and colloquially as Lynn, is a port and market town in the borough of King's Lynn and West Norfolk in the county of Norfolk, England. It is north-east of Peterborough, north-north-east of Cambridg ...
he was taken to
Thomas Thirlby,
Bishop of Ely
The Bishop of Ely is the Ordinary (officer), ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Ely in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese roughly covers the county of Cambridgeshire (with the exception of the Soke of Peterborough), together with ...
, who sent him to Cambridge. Hullier was examined on Palm Sunday eve 28 March before a body of divines and lawyers headed by
Nicholas Shaxton, at
Great St Mary's, Cambridge.
[Foxe's Book of Martyrs: 337: John Hullier](_blank)
Exclassics.com. Retrieved on 2013-05-19.
On
Maundy Thursday
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, 16 April 1556 Hullier was burned at the stake on
Jesus Green
Jesus Green is a park in the north of central Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, north of Jesus College. Jesus Ditch runs along the southern edge Jesus Green. On the northern edge of Jesus Green is the River Cam, with Chesterton Road (the ...
,
Cambridge
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for refusing to renounce the Protestant faith.
[Thomas Bryce, "The Regester" in Edward Farr, ed.]
''Select Poetry of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth''
1845.
References
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1500s births
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16th-century Protestant martyrs
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Protestant martyrs of England
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Choristers of the Choir of King's College, Cambridge
English Protestant ministers and clergy