John Barthlet or Bartlett (

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1566), was an English theological writer. Barthlet was a minister of the

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, and held strongly

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ic opinions. In 1566 he published a work entitled the On the title-page is an engraving of the bear and ragged staff, and the book is dedicated to the

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, who is described as a ", and ". Some Latin hexameters and sapphics by graduates of Cambridge, addressed to the reader, preface the volume. The work was prepared as a reply to the 'Hatchet of Heresies' (Antwerp, 1565), an anti-

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pamphlet, translated by

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, of

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, from the ''De origine haeresium nostri temporis'' of cardinal Stanislaus Hosius, bishop of Chełmno and Warmia. Barthlet, scandalised by Shacklock's contempt for the doctrines of the Reformation, tried to show that all

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doctrines were tainted by heresies traceable to either

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or Simon Magus. His table of heretics is long, and includes such obscure sects as ‘ Visiblers,’ ‘ Quantitiners,’ ‘ Metamorphistes,’ and ‘ Mice-feeders.’ A letter from a John Bartelot to

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, dated 1535, revealing a scandalous passage in the life of the prior of Crutched Friars in London, is printed from the Cottonian MS. in Wright's 'Letters relating to the Suppression of Monasteries,’ p. 59 (Camden Soc.) A John Bartlet was vicar of Stortford, Essex, from 23 February 1555–6 until 5 March 1560–1. 'One Barthlett, a divinity lecturer of St. Giles', Cripplegate,’ was suspended by

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on 4 May 1566.Cal. State Papers, 1547–1580, p. 271 It is probable that these notices refer to the author of the 'Pedegrewe,’ whose name was very variously spelt.

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