John Brett ( fl. 1556) was a messenger for

Mary I of England Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, and as "Bloody Mary" by her Protestant opponents, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain from January 1556 until her death in 1558. Sh ...

when she tried to have the

Marian exiles The Marian exiles were English Protestantism, Protestants who fled to Continental Europe during the 1553–1558 reign of the Catholic Church, Catholic monarchs Queen Mary I and Philip II of Spain, King Philip.Christina Hallowell Garrett (1938) ''M ...

returned to England. His chronicle survives, and gives us detailed information on this episode.''The Marian Exiles'', Christina Hallowell Garrett, p.37 His chronicle is entitled, '' A Narrative of the Pursuit of English Refugees in Germany Under Queen Mary'' but is often known simply as ''Brett's Chronicle'' or ''Brett's Narrative''.

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