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John PullainPullayne, Pullein, Pulleyne. (1517–1565) was an English churchman, a reformer and poet, Marian exile and Geneva Bible translator.
He joined friends in Geneva in 1554, and co-operated in the Genevan translation of the Bible. In 1557 he was secretly in England under the name of Smith, acted as chaplain to the Duchess of Suffolk, and held services at Colchester as well as in Cornhill. Stephen Morris laid an information against him before Bishop Edmund Bonner; he escaped again to Geneva, and was there on 15 December 1558, when he signed the letter of the Genevan exile church to other Marian exiles, recommending reconciliation.
Returning to England on Elizabeth's accession, he was restored to St. Peter's, Cornhill, but almost immediately incurred Elizabeth's wrath for preaching without licence, contrary to her proclamation. Pullain's name, however, appears in a list of persons suggested for preferment in 1559. On 13 December in that year he was admitted, on the queen's presentation, to the archdeaconry of Colchester, and on 8 March 1560 to the rectory of Copford, Essex. He resigned his Cornhill living on 15 November 1560. On 12 September 1561 he was installed prebendary of St. Paul's Cathedral. As a member of the lower house in the convocation of 1563 he advocated Calvinistic views. He died in the summer of 1565. He had married in Edward VI's reign, but some of the relatives sought to deprive his children of his property on the ground that they were illegitimate.
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