1. Thomas Fuller notes in Worthies of England that John Feckenham was the last clergyman to be "locally surnamed".
10 Facts About John Feckenham
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John Feckenham established a reputation as a preacher and a disputant of keen intellect but unvarying charity.
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John Feckenham took part in the Oxford disputes against Cranmer, Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley; but he was ill at ease with the brutality of some measures put in force against the Church of England.
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John Feckenham employed his influence with Mary "to procure pardon of the faults or mitigation of the punishment for poor Protestants".
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The story that Queen Elizabeth I sent for John Feckenham and offered him the archbishopric of Canterbury, and offered to let the abbot and his monks stay at Westminster if they conformed to the Church of England has no contemporary source.
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John Feckenham sat in Elizabeth's first parliament, and was the last mitred abbot to do so.
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John Feckenham consistently opposed all the legislation for changes in religion, and he refused the Oath of Supremacy.
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Except for some brief periods when he was a prisoner at large, John Feckenham spent the rest of his life in confinement either in some recognized prison, or in the keeping of the bishops of Winchester and Ely.
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John Feckenham set up a public aqueduct in Holborn, and a hospice for the poor at Bath; he distributed every day to the sick the milk of twelve cows, took care of orphans, and encouraged sports on Sundays among the youth of London by giving prizes.
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John Feckenham was played by the actor Michael Hordern in the 1986 historical drama Lady Jane.