Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Bradshaw, John (7)

by Joseph Foster

Bradshaw, John, s. Alban, of Maidstone, Kent, pleb. Corpus Christi Coll., matric. 23 Feb., 1673-4, aged 15; scholar 20 April, 1674, expelled thence in July, 1677, for that he and Robert Neulin, another scholar, did endeavour to murder a senior fellow called John Wickes while sleeping; was found guilty and condemned to die 27 July following, but reprieved after a year's imprisonment; taught a petty school, turned Quaker, was a preacher among them, and turned papist when James II. came to the throne. See Ath., iv. 619; & D.N.B.