John Colleton (priest)
English priest
John Colleton (1548–1635) was an English Roman Catholic priest.
Life
He was son of Edmund Colleton of Milverton, Somerset, where he was born. He was sent to the University of Oxford in 1565, and studied at Lincoln College. A convert to Catholicism when about twenty years of age, he went to Leuven with the intention of becoming a Carthusian monk, and entered the novitiate; but did not proceed further. He then went to the English College, Douai, where he was admitted 14 January 1576.
Colleton was ordained priest at Binche on 11 June 1576, and sent on the English mission on 19 July. He was a priest in England till 1581, when he was taken prisoner, arraigned and tried with Edmund Campion and others for conspiring abroad against the queen and government. The indictment charged them with having concerted an invasion and compassed the queen's death by a conspiracy carried on at Reims and at Rome; but Colleton was acquitted. He was then kept a prisoner in the Tower of London till 1584, when he was exiled with 71 other priests.
Colleton arrived at the English College, then temporarily at Reims, on 3 March 1585, and left it on 24 April 1585.
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