after the revival of the heresy acts in December 1554, he was condemned for heresy by Bishop Gardiner and degraded by Bishop Bonner on 29 January 1555. Hooper was sent to Gloucester, where he was burnt on 9 February. Legacy Hooper represented the radical wing of English Protestantism. While he expressed dissatisfaction with some of Calvin's earlier writings, he approved of the Consensus Tigurinus negotiated in 1549 between the Zwinglians and Calvinists of Switzerland. It was this form of religion that he laboured to spread in England and with others, such as Nicholas Ridley, Martin Bucer, and Pietro Martire Vermigli, he influence the changes in the 1552 edition of the Book of Common Prayer. The subject had considerable influence on the Puritans of Elizabeth's reign, when many editions of Hooper's works were published. Two volumes of Hooper's writings are included in the Parker Society's publications and another edition appeared at Oxford in 1855. In 1550 he translated book 2 of Tertullian's "Ad Uxorem" (To his wife), which is the first English translation of any of Tertullian's works. References Further reading Walter H. Frere and William M. Kennedy (eds). Visitation Articles and Injunctions of the Period of the Reformation, vols I-III, Alcuin Club Collections (London,1910), Longmans, Green and Co. vol. II, pp. 282–83 Gairdner, J. "Bishop Hooper's Examination of the Clergy, 1551, English Historical Review, XIX (1904), p. 99 Nevinson, Charles (ed.) The Later Writings of Bishop Hooper. The Parker Society, London (1852), pp 132-133, 151 Gough's General Index to Parker Soc. Pub I. Strype's Works (General Index) Foxe's Acts and Monuments, ed. Townsend; Acts of the Privy Council Cal. State Papers, "Domestic" Series; Nichols's Lit. Remains of Edward VI. Burnet, Collier, Dixon, Froude and Gairdner's histories; Pollard's Cranmer External links Hooper's translation of Tertullian, Ad Uxorem, book 2. This rare little volume (no other copy is known) is held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, and was transcribed for this site. Tudor woodcut of John Hooper's martyrdom Converts to Protestantism from Roman Catholicism English Calvinist and Reformed theologians English Cistercians English evangelicals 16th-century Church of England bishops 15th-century births 1555 deaths Bishops of Gloucester Bishops of Worcester 16th-century Protestant martyrs People executed for heresy People executed under Mary I of England People executed by the Kingdom of England by burning 16th-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians Year of birth unknown Protestant martyrs of England 15th-century Anglican theologians 16th-century Anglican theologians