condition ‘that he purge himself of heretical opinions before the next act.’ De Corro had already subscribed the Anglican articles before the privy council, but Dr. Rainolds on 7 June wrote to Humphrey, the vice-chancellor, reviving the charges against De Corro and hinting that he was the source of the heresies of Francesco Pucci, an erratic Florentine who had given trouble to the university in the previous year. After ‘severe examination’ he was admitted as a divinity reader in 1579; yet Wood finds no record of his obtaining an Oxford degree. As he styles himself S.T.P. in a publication as early as 1574, he may have had a foreign or a Lambeth degree. At Oxford De Corro lived as a student in Christ Church, and became reader of divinity to the students in Gloucester, St. Mary, and Hart Halls. He was ‘censor theologicus’ at Christ Church, 1581–5, and matriculated as a member of Christ Church in 1586. In 1585 he obtained the prebend of Harleston in St. Paul's, London.
The charge of heresy was reiterated against him at Oxford in 1582, and has clung to his memory. Bonet-Maury places him, on dubious grounds, among those who have rejected the doctrine of the Trinity. His published articles of faith (1574) are quite orthodox on that doctrine. Some of his London congregation may have been anti-trinitarian, but he does not seem to have been personally heterodox, except in the article of predestination and cognate doctrines, as held by Calvinists. He was a man of open mind, and had his temper been less hot and his disposition more conciliatory, his career might have been brighter. De Corro died in London about 30 March 1591, and was buried at St. Andrew's (perhaps St. Andrew Wardrobe). His wife (Mary) and daughter (Susan), who both survived him, were of no good repute, according to Wood. His sons John and James predeceased him.
De Corro's writings show signs of considerable attainment; his later books are compiled mainly from his lectures. He published: 1. ‘Lettre envoyée à la Maiesté du Roi des Espaignes,’ &c., 1567, 8vo. Also in Latin (1567); and in English (1577). 2. Letter (in French) to pastors of Antwerp, 1568; also published in Latin; translated by Geffray Fenton, with title, ‘An Epistle, or godlie Admonition … sent to the Pastours of the Flemish Church in Antwerp (who name themselves of the confession of Auspurge),’ &c., London, 1569, 8vo; 1570, 8vo. 3. ‘Tableau de l'Œuvre de Dieu,’ &c., printed at Norwich, Strype implies that it was in print before 1568, but this does not seem probable. In Latin, ‘Tabula Divinorum Operum,’ &c., London, 1574, 8vo; 1584, 8vo. In English,‘Tables of God's Works;’ also in Flemish. 4. ‘Dialogus Theologicus, quo epistola D. Pauli ad Romanos explanatur,’ &c., London, 1574, 8vo; Frankfort, 1587, 8vo. In English, ‘A Theological Dialogue,’ &c., 1575, 16mo; 1579, 8vo (has at the end his articles of faith). 5. ‘Salomonis Concio … quam Hebræi Cohelet, Græci et Latini Ecclesiasten vocant, in Latinam linguam … versa, et ex ejusdem prælectionibus paraphrasi illustrata,’ &c., London, 1579, 8vo; 1581, 8vo; Frankfort, 1618, 8vo (with analysis by Abraham Scultetus). Abridged by Pitt, ‘Sermons on Ecclesiastes,’ 1585, 8vo. 6. ‘The Spanish Grammer, with certeine rules for teaching both the Spanish and French tongues,’ London, 1590, 8vo (translated from De Corro's Spanish by John Thorie, who added a Spanish dictionary).
[The best account of De Corro is by Christiaan Sepp, in Polemische en Irenische Theologie, Leyden, 1881. Wood's Athenæ Oxon. (Bliss), 1813, i. 578; Wood's Hist. and Antiq. Univ. Oxford (Gutch), 1796, ii. 179 sq., 195; Tanner's Biblioth. 1748, p. 200; Strype's Grindal, 1821, pp. 185 sq. 217 sq.; Strype's Parker, 1821, ii. 402 sq.; Strype's Annals, 1824, I. pt. i. p. 355, iv. 570; McCrie's Hist. Ref. in Spain, 1829, pp. 223, 348, 369, 372 sq.; Zurich Letters (Parker Soc.), 2nd ser. 1845, letters 101 (by De Corro), 105 (by Barlow); Bonet-Maury's Early Sources of Eng. Unit. Christ. (Hall), 1884, pp. 133, 156 sq. (cf. Christ. Life, 21 May and 4 June 1881).]
CORRY, HENRY THOMAS LOWRY (1803–1873), politician, second son of the second Earl of Belmore, by Juliana, second daughter of Henry Thomas, second earl of Carrick, was born in Dublin on 9 March 1803. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he proceeded B.A. 1823. In 1825 he entered the House of Commons as conservative member for Tyrone county, which before and after the union had been represented by members of his family. His connection with this constituency, extending over forty-seven years, continued unbroken till his death, which took place at Bournemouth on 6 March 1873. He was comptroller of the household in Sir Robert Peel's first administration, 1834–5, and in the latter year was sworn a member of the privy council. On the return of his party to office he served as a junior lord of the admiralty, 1841–5, and latterly, 1845–6, as secretary to the same department. He was not included in the conservative government of 1852, but in Lord Derby's second administration, 1858–9, he resumed his last post at the admiralty. In 1866–7 he was vice-president of the council on education. The resignations of Lord Cranbourne, Lord Car-
