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Many fragments were supplied in quotes by Athenaeus, principally on the subject of wine-drinking, but fr. 333, " wine, window into a man ", was quoted much later by the Byzantine grammarian, John Tzetzes.
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Among those held there were John Feckenham, the last Abbot of Westminster, and later two of the key participants in the Gunpowder Plot, Robert Catesby and Francis Tresham.
Cheke was visited by two priests and by Dr John Feckenham, dean of St Paul's, whom he had formerly tried to convert to Protestantism, and, terrified by the prospect of being burned at the stake, he agreed to be received into the Church of Rome by Cardinal Pole.
John Feckenham ( c. 1515 – October, 1584 ), also known as John Howman of Feckingham and later John de Feckenham or John Fecknam, was an English churchman, the last abbot of Westminster.
After Bonner was deprived of his see, in about 1549, Thomas Cranmer sent Feckenham to the Tower of London, and while there learning and eloquence made him such a successful advocate that he was temporarily freed (" borrowed out of prison ") to take part in seven public disputations against John Hooper, John Jewel and others.
* The fullest account of John Feckenham is in Ethelred Luke Taunton, English Black Monks of St Benedict ( London, 1897 ), vol.
* An authoritative more recent account is David Knowles, ' John Feckenham, Last Abbot of Westminster ', in his Saints and Scholars, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1962, pp. 192 – 202
His friends John Feckenham and John Young had also been summoned, and the examination took the form of a debate.
These included his old friend John Feckenham, a fellow student of his at Cambridge and the last Abbot of Westminster.
* John Feckenham ( c. 1515 – 1584 ), canonised English ecclesiastic and last abbot of Westminster, was born at Feckenham.
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