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English College; Street John"s College.
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Martin Sherson
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A native of Yorkshire, he matriculated at Street John"s College, Oxford in 1575 at the age of twelve, becoming "a poor scholar of George Mannering who taught Rhetoric there". He arrived at the English College at Reims, 1 April 1580. He was confirmed by Bishop Goldwell, 11 June 1580.
Left for Rome, 20 March.
And entered the English College, Rome 8 May 1581, aged eighteen, where "through an over-zealous application to study and prayer he began to spit blood". He left for England, 16 June, and was imprisoned in the Marshalsea before 22 December 1586.
He was still there in March 1588, and died there soon after, aged twenty-five.
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Roman Catholic