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and on the continent, where he had to take refuge from perse- 

 cution. He was elected aFellowof Pembroke Hall in 15S0, and 

 held the same fellowship in' 1538. About this time he became 

 Latimer's disciple, embracing with enthusiasm the principles 

 of the Reformation; and about 1540 he left Cambridge, 

 and travelled about England preaching. In consequence, 

 probably, of refusal to subscribe to the ' Six Articles,'* he 

 was imprisoned for some time; and, on his release in 1542, 

 he was obliged to leave England, to which he did not return 

 until after the death of Henry YIII. During his absence he 

 devoted much time to Botany, and became intimate with the 

 great naturalist Gesner, and other eminent men. He also 

 took the degree of M.D. at Ferrara. 



On his return to England in 1547, Turner seems to 

 have been in high favour, for the new king made him a 

 Prebend of York and Canon of Windsor ; ' the Duke of 

 Somerset, Lord Protector, appointed him his physician ; and 

 the University of Oxford granted him the degree of M.D. on 

 his appointment. Li 1550 he w^as made Dean of Wells. 

 He was also a member of the House of Commons. On the 

 death of the king and the accession of Mary, Turner had 

 again (1553) to take refuge abroad, and did not return to 

 England until after her death. Queen Elizabeth restored 

 to him all his church preferments, and in 1563 presented 

 him to the rectory of Wedmore, in Somersetshire. The 

 latter years of his life appear to have been spent at 

 Wells and in London, where he had a house ' in the crossed 

 Fryers.' He died on July 7th, 1568, and was buried on the 

 9th, in the south-aisle of St. Olave's, Hart Street, Crutched 

 Friars. A stone, erected by his widow, is let into the 



- The statute of ' Six Articles,' piibhshed in 1539 by Henry VIII., 

 decreed the ackuowleclgraent of transubstantiation, communion in 

 one kind, vows of chastity, private masses, cehbacy of the clergy, and 

 auricular confession. Offenders were punishable as heretics. 



