Jewel John: - "John Jewel (alias Jewell) of Devon, England (24 May 1522 - 23 September 1571), was Bishop of Salisbury from 1559 until 1571. He was the youngest son of John Jewel of Bowden, Berry Narbor, Devon, and Alice Bellamye, daughter of Richard Bellamye. Until his matriculation at Merton College, Oxford, in July 1535, he was educated by his uncle John Bellamy, rector of Hampton, and other private tutors. He was trained there by John Parkhurst, who later became bishop of Norwich, but on August 19, 1539, he was elected scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He received his BA in 1540 and his MA in 1545 after being chosen fellow of his college in 1542. He built a name for himself as a teacher at Oxford and later became one of the most devoted pupils of Pietro Martire Vermigli, known in England as Peter Martyr. He received his BD in 1552 and was appointed vicar of Sunningwell, south of Oxford, and public orator of the university, for which he was required to write a congratulations epistle to Mary on her accession. He served as notary to Cranmer and Ridley at their debate in April 1554, but in the autumn he signed a number of Catholic documents. Despite being suspected, he went to London and then to Frankfort, where he arrived in March 1555."