1548) was an Anglican priest at "Shiltelington" (perhaps Shillington, Bedfordshire) who is the first recorded English anti-Trinitarian.
This then appears to be what would later be called a Socinian position, not an Arian or fully Unitarian one.
Assheton has been identified as the subject of the 1549 work The Fal of the late Arrian by the Catholic historian John Proctor, at least tentatively, by historians including Diarmaid MacCulloch.
[2] MacCulloch also describes Assheton (Ashton) as a Cambridge man, with connections to nobility as a chaplain.
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