Michael Dunning (d.1558) was Chancellor of the Diocese of Norwich from 1554 under Mary Tudor, and with

John Hopton John Hopton (died 1558) was the last Roman Catholic Bishop of Norwich. He was a member of the Dominican Order by 1516, in Oxford. He was educated at the University of Bologna in Italy, where he took a doctorate in theology. During the reign of ...

Bishop of Norwich The Bishop of Norwich is the Ordinary (Catholic Church), ordinary of the Church of England Anglican Diocese of Norwich, Diocese of Norwich in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers most of the county of Norfolk and part of Suffolk. Th ...

, was responsible for the burning of 31 heretics.

John Foxe John Foxe (1516/1517 – 18 April 1587) was an English clergyman, theologian, and historian, notable for his martyrology '' Foxe's Book of Martyrs'', telling of Christian martyrs throughout Western history, but particularly the sufferings of En ...

characterised Dunning as the "bloody chancellor."

Life

He graduated Bachelor of Civil Law at the

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in 1541, becoming Doctor in 1555. He was rector of

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in 1546; and then of

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from 1549 to 1554. After his term as the "bloody chancellor" he was in 1558 made

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, but was removed from the post later the same year. Among those executed by Dunning and Hopton were: * Cicely Ormes, wife of a weaver * Thomas Cobbe, butcher of Haverhill, Roger Coe, and James Abbes * Simon Miller, of the town of Lynn * Elizabeth Cooper, wife of a pewterer

References

External links

Data page for Dunning from The Acts and Monuments Online.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dunning, Michael 1558 deaths 16th-century English Anglican priests Archdeacons of Bedford Year of birth unknown