BRADFORD, JOHN English Protestant mar tyr, was born at Manchester. In 1547 he studied law in the Inner Temple, but removed in the following year to St. Catha rine's Hall, Cambridge, where he took an M.A. degree in divinity and was made fellow of Pembroke Hall. He was appointed chap lain to Bishop Ridley in 1550, prebendary of St. Paul's in 1551, and chaplain to Edward VI. in 1553, and became one of the most popular preachers in the kingdom. Soon after the accession of Mary he was arrested on a charge of sedition, and imprisoned. He was brought to trial (1554-55) before the court in which Bishop Gardiner sat as chief, and was condemned as a heretic and burnt on July I, 1555• His writings, which consist chiefly of sermons, meditations, tracts, letters and prayers, were edited by A. Townsend for the Parker Society (2 vols., Cambridge, 1848-53).