Venerable John Sugar

Venerable John Sugar

(Suker).

Born at Wombourn, Staffordshire, 1558; suffered at Warwick, 16 July, 1604. He matriculated at Oxford from St. Mary Hall, 30 October, 1584, and is described as clerici filius. He left without taking a degree, it is said because he disliked the Oath of Supremacy; but it appears that he acted as a Protestant minister at Cannock, Staffordshire, for some time. He was ordained priest from the English College, Douai (1601), and sent on the mission the same year. He was arrested 8 July, 1603, at Rowington, Warwickshire, with Venerable Robert Greswold (Grissold [or Griswold]), a native of Rowington (in the service of Mr. Sheldon of Broadway, Worcestershire), who was in attendance on him. After a year's imprisonment at Warwick they were condemned there 14 July, Sugar for being a priest, and Greswold for assisting him. Sugar was cut down before he was fully dead. Greswold was offered his life if he would promise to conform.

CHALLONER, Missionary Priests, II, nos. 135, 136; FOSTER, Alumni Oxonienses (Oxford, 1892); KNOX, Douay Diaries (London, 1878), 17, 32; POLLEN, Acts of the English Martyrs (London, 1891), 321.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT