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SJCR/SJAR/1/1/Longworth
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- 1563-1569 (Creation)
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Richard Longworth matriculated as a pensioner in 1549. He graduated B.A. in 1553, M.A. in 1556, B.D. in 1563 and D.D. in 1567. Longworth was a fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge from 1553-1557 and a fellow of St John's from 1559. He was elected to the Mastership of St John's in 1564 but was deprived of the position by College's Visitor, the Bishop of Ely (Richard Cox) in 1569. Longworth was an enthusiastic Protestant and under his mastership the College had become a Protestant force in the university. Under Longworth, the Master and others refused to wear the surplice in chapel and Longworth was summoned to London to explain himself. The Visitor was called on to intervene as a result of internal feuding and dissension within the College.
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Includes: a letter to Richard Longworth when he was SJC President.
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- See: Howard, Henry Fraser. An Account of the Finances of The College of St John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge 1511-1926. (Cambridge, 1935). p. 30 for a perspective of Longworth's mastership.