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William Peryn (died 1558) was an English [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] theologian and prior of St Bartholomew's, [[Smithfield, London]].

Peryn was educated at Blackfriars in [[Oxford]] and there are records of him being there in 1529 and 1531, the year in which he was ordained.^ref He went to London and was a preacher strongly against heresy, and a chaplain to Sir . He went into exile with the declaration of the [[royal supremacy]] in 1534 but returned to England in 1543, when he applied for a degree of BTh at Oxford. He became a chantrist at  and in early 1547 preached in favour of images in religious services.^ref

With the accession of Protestant [[Edward VI of England|Edward VI]] in 1547 he went into exile again, spending several years in [[Leuven|Louvain]] before returning to England in 1553 upon the accession of Catholic [[Mary I of England|Mary]]. That year he was appointed prior of the Dominican house at St Bartholomew's in Smithfield. This was the first religious house founded by Mary. On 8 February 1556 Peryn is recorded by the diarist [[Henry Machyn]] as preaching at [[Paul's Cross]].^ref

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'''William Peryn''' (died 1558) was an English [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] theologian and prior of St Bartholomew's, [[Smithfield, London]].

Peryn was educated at Blackfriars in [[Oxford]] and there are records of him being there in 1529 and 1531, the year in which he was ordained.<ref name="ODNB">L. E. C. Wooding, ‘[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22007 Peryn,  William  (d. 1558)]’, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press,  2004, accessed 20 Feb 2012.</ref> He went to London and was a preacher strongly against heresy, and a chaplain to Sir <<link:0>>. He went into exile with the declaration of the [[royal supremacy]] in 1534 but returned to England in 1543, when he applied for a degree of BTh at Oxford. He became a chantrist at <<link:1>> and in early 1547 preached in favour of images in religious services.<ref name="ODNB" />

With the accession of Protestant [[Edward VI of England|Edward VI]] in 1547 he went into exile again, spending several years in [[Leuven|Louvain]] before returning to England in 1553 upon the accession of Catholic [[Mary I of England|Mary]]. That year he was appointed prior of the Dominican house at St Bartholomew's in Smithfield. This was the first religious house founded by Mary. On 8 February 1556 Peryn is recorded by the diarist [[Henry Machyn]] as preaching at [[Paul's Cross]].<ref name="ODNB" />

Peryn was the author of three books: ''Thre Godly Sermons of the Sacrament of the Aulter'' (1546); ''Spirituall exercyses and goostly meditacions, and a neare waye to come to perfection and lyfe contemplatyve'' (1557); and ''De frequenter celebranda missa'' (of which no copy survives).

The three sermons published were originally preached at the hospital of St Anthony in London and are dedicated to [[Edmund Bonner]], Bishop of London. He borrowed heavily from Bishop of Rochester [[John Fisher]]'s ''De veritate corporis et sanguinis Christi in eucharistia'' and in the preface Peryn explains why he has published the sermons:

<blockquote>...in homely and playne sentens, by cause that I have cheflye prepared them...for the unlearned. And the veryte (beyng delectable and bewtifull of herselfe) nedeth not, the gorgius ornamentes, of eloquens. Also the matters of our fayth, hath moche lesse nede of rethoricall perswacyons, havynge theyr grond, and fundacyon, upon the infallyble veritie, of goddes holy worde.<ref name="ODNB" /></blockquote>

Peryn's ''Spirituall exercyses'' was dedicated to two exiled English nuns; Katherine Palmer, abbess of the nuns at Syon and Isleworth, and Dorothy Clement, a Poor Clare at Louvain and the daughter of Sir [[Thomas More]]'s adopted daughter [[Margaret Giggs]].<ref>Eamon Duffy, ''Fires of Faith. Catholic England under Mary Tudor'' (London: Yale University Press, 2009), p. 191.</ref> It was also based on [[Nicolaus van Esch]]'s ''Exercitia theologiae mysticae''. This work by Peryn was to have a long readership amongst English recusants and was much treasured by [[Margaret Clitheroe]]. It would be republished by an underground Catholic press of [[Caen]] in 1598.<ref name="ODNB" /><ref>Duffy, pp. 191-192.</ref>

Peryn died in 1558 and was buried in St Bartholomew's on 22 August, at the high altar.<ref name="ODNB" />

==Notes==
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==References==

*L. E. C. Wooding, ‘[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22007 Peryn,  William  (d. 1558)]’, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press,  2004, accessed 20 Feb 2012.

==External links==
*http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Peryn,_William_%28DNB00%29

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