Thomas Some (divine)

An unwilling monk, he took up advanced Protestant views and was an active preacher under Edward VI, but probably fled abroad on Mary's accession.

Thomas Some, born about 1509 or 1510,[1] was probably the canon of St. Osyth's, Essex, who in 1535 wrote a letter (extant in Cotton.

[2] He adopted advanced Protestant views, and about 1540 published a Traetys callyde the Lordis flayle, handlyde by the Bushops poure thresshere, Thomas Solme, n.d., printed 'at Basyl by me Theophyll Emlos', 8vo (British Library).

[2] Soon afterwards he was 'imprisoned upon the thirty-nine articles',[3] and in July 1546 the Lord's Flail was one of the books burnt by Bonner, in accordance with the King's proclamation.

[2] In 1551 he appended some Latin verses to the Preservative or Triacle of William Turner, Dean of Wells; but the work on justification which he promised in his Lord's Flail does not appear to have been published.

South view of the gatehouse of old St. Osyth's Priory in 1769; the abbey church was by then demolished.
England and her neighbours, 1534