John Adams was a Catholic priest and martyr. He was born at Winterbourne St Martin in Dorset at an unknown date (c. 1543?) and became a Protestant minister. He later entered the Catholic Church and travelled to the English College then at Rheims, arriving on December 7 1579. He was ordained a priest at Soissons on December 17 1580. He set out for the mission in England on March 29 1581. He is known to have worked in Hampshire but details of his later, … Wikipedia
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