Taylor, ROWLAND, Marian martyr, was a native of Rothbury in Northumberland, and studied at Cambridge, taking his LL.B. in 1530 and LL.D. in 1534. Cranmer, to whom he was domestic chaplain, gave him the rectory of Hadleigh in Suffolk (1544), and he subsequently became archdeacon of Exeter (1551) and a canon of Rochester. Under Mary he was imprisoned as a heretic for more than a twelvemonth in the King's Bench, and on 8th February 1555 was burned near Hadleigh. See Cooper's Athenæ Cantabrigienses (1858).
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