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Heretic Hunting beyond the Seas: John Brett and his Encounter with the Marian Exiles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 July 2014

Sarah Covington
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The story of beleaguered Protestants who fled to the continent during the reign of Mary Tudor in the 1550s is well-known, but less familiar is the attempt by the queen and her representatives to order some of those exiles apprehended and brought back home for confrontation or punishment. One agent placed in charge of tracking down a few of the more prominent exiles and serving them with papers was John Brett: over the course of several months, in which he himself was pursued, insulted, beaten, and ultimately chased from Frankfurt and Strasbourg by protestant sympathizers, Brett persisted in his attempt to reach figures such as Katherine, the godly duchess of Suffolk, and her family; the result however was utter failure, described in an account of the tribulations written by Brett himself after his empty-handed return to England.

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Albion , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , Fall 2004 , pp. 407 - 429
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Copyright © North American Conference on British Studies 2004

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