Education
A native of Yorkshire, he was educated at New College, Oxford. He graduated there Bachelor of Arts in 1540 and Master of Arts
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John Pullain
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Career
In February 1544. In 1547 he was admitted senior student of Christ Church. He made some reputation as a writer of Latin and English poetry, and became a frequent preacher and a reformer. On 7 January 1553, being then Bachelor of Divinity, he was admitted to the rectory of Saint Peter"s, Cornhill, but was deprived of it on Queen Mary"s accession.
He then for a time preached secretly in the parish.
He joined friends in Geneva in 1554, and co-operated in the Genevan translation of the Bible. In 1557 he was secretly in England under the name of Smith, acted as chaplain to the Duchess of Suffolk, and held services at Colchester as well as in Cornhill.
Stephen Morris laid an information against him before Bishop Edmund Bonner. He escaped again to Geneva, and was there on 15 December 1558, when he signed the letter of the Genevan exile church to other English churches on the continent, recommending reconciliation.
Returning to England on Elizabeth"s accession, he was restored to Saint Peter"s, Cornhill, but almost immediately incurred Elizabeth"s wrath for preaching without licence, contrary to her proclamation.
Pullain"s name, however, appears in a list of persons suggested for preferment in 1559. On 13 December in that year he was admitted, on the queen"s presentation, to the archdeaconry of Colchester, and on 8 March 1560 to the rectory of Copford, Essex. He resigned his Cornhill living on 15 November 1560.
On 12 September 1561 he was installed prebendary of Saint Paul"s Cathedral.
He died in the summer of 1565.
Membership
As a member of the lower house in the convocation of 1563 he advocated Calvinistic views.
