John Terry (priest)

John Terry (c.1555–1625) was a Church of England clergyman and anti-Catholic controversialist.

Educated at New College, Oxford, he was elected a fellow of the college until taking the living of Stockton, Wiltshire in 1590. The Triall of Truth attacked Roman Catholicism.

Works

• The Triall of Truth, 1600
• The second part of the trial of truth, 1602
• The reasonablenesse of wise and holy truth, 1617
• Theologicall Logicke: or the third part of the Tryall of truth, 1625

References

• Stephen Wright, ‘Terry, John (c.1555–1625)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 20 Dec 2007