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John Willock (or
Willocks) (c.
1515 -
December 4,
1585),
Scottish reformer, was a native of
Ayrshire and was educated at the
University of Glasgow.
After being a monk for a short time he embraced the
reformed religion and went to
London, where, about
1542, he became
chaplain to
Henry Grey, afterwards Duke of Suffolk, the father of
Lady Jane Grey.
On the accession of
Mary to the
English throne in
1553 he went to
Emden in
Friesland, where he practised as a physician, varying this profession with visits to Scotland. He was associated with the leading Scottish reformers in their opposition to the queen regent,
Mary of Lorraine, and the
Roman Catholic religion, and in
1558 he returned definitely to his native land.
Willock now began to preach and in 1559 was outlawed. Popular sympathy, however, rendered this sentence fruitless, and in the same year, being
Knox's deputy as
minister of
St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, he frustrated the efforts of the regent to restore the Roman Catholic religion, and administered the communion for the first time in accordance with the ideas of the reformers. He was one of the four ministers chosen by the convention of October
1559 to seats on the council of government, and was one of those appointed to compile the
First Book of Discipline.
About
1562 he became rector of
Loughborough in
Leicestershire, but he retained his connexion with the Scottish church and was
Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1562, and again in 1564, in 1565 and in 1568. He died at Loughborough on the 4th of December 1585.
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