But the tide of persecution was rising again, and in 1542 Joye left England a second time. Bishop Gardiner's treatment of Robert Barnes [q. v.], who suffered at Smithfield in July 1540, excited all his old ferocity, and while at Wesel he printed in June 1543 a book called ‘George Joye confuteth Winchesters False Articles’ (Brit. Mus.). It is mainly a vindication of the doctrine of justification by faith, and was reprinted in Richmond's ‘Fathers of the English Church,’ 1807 (i. 532–3). Gardiner had replied to Joye's attack in his ‘Declaration of such true Articles as George Joye hath gone about to confute as false,’ London, 1546. The latter met this with a ‘Refutation of the Byshop of Winchesters derke Declaration of his false Articles once before confuted by George Joye,’ 1546. In September 1544 he had prepared for his English friends ‘A Present Consolation for the Sufferers of Persecucion for Ryght Wyseness’ (Brit. Mus.) Removing to Geneva he issued in August 1545 the result of his latest biblical labours in his ‘Exposicion of Daniel the Prophete, gathered oute of Philip Melanchton, Johan Ecolampadius, Chonrade Pellicane, and out of Johan Draconite, &c.’ (Brit. Mus.) Another edition appeared in 1550 in London; some copies bear the imprint of John Daye, others that of Thomas Raynald (ib.) On 7 July 1546 a proclamation was issued in London directing that Joye's works, with those of other reformers, should be publicly burnt (Wriothesley, Chron., Camd. Soc., i. 169). Finally, in May 1548, appeared Joye's English rendering of ‘The Coniectures of the ende of the Worlde and of that godly and learned man, Andrew Osiander’ (Brit. Mus.), in which the translator informed his readers that the world must end between 1585 and 1625. He seems to have come back to England on the accession of Edward VI, and he died, according to Fuller, at his native place in Bedfordshire in 1553.
Joye's English renderings of the Bible, although historically valuable, have little literary flavour. Extracts are given in Cotton's ‘Editions of the English Bible,’ 1852, pp. 239–241, 353, and in Waterland's ‘Works,’ Oxford, 1823, x. 299, 301.
He was married (More, in his ‘Confutation,’ 1532, calls him ‘the priest that is wedded now’), and he left a son, George Joye, who graduated M.A. at Cambridge, signed the declaration to Lord Burghley in behalf of Cartwright in 1570, and was presented to the rectory of St. Peter's, Sandwich, on 4 May 1570. On 20 June 1573 St. John's College, Cambridge, presented him to the vicarage of Higham, which he resigned two years later (cf. Baker, Hist. St. John's College, ed. Mayor, i. 399, 401).
[Cooper's Athenæ Cantabr. i. 114–15; Fuller's Worthies; Bale's Scriptores; Cotton's Edits. of English Bible, 2nd ed. 1852; Anderson's Annals of English Bible; Ames's Typogr. Antiq. (Herbert), pp. 567–8, et passim; Hartshorne's Book Rarities of Univ. of Cambr.; Strype's Cranmer and Annals; Brit. Mus. Cat.; Tanner's Bibl. Brit.; Demaus's Life of Tyndale.]
JOYLIFFE, GEORGE, M.D. (1621–1658), physician, son of John Joyliffe of East Stower, Dorsetshire, was born there in 1621. In 1637, when sixteen years old, he became a member of Wadham College, Oxford, but migrated to Pembroke College, whence he graduated B.A. June 1640, and M.A. April 1643. He served as lieutenant in the royal army under Lord Hopton in 1643. He studied medicine under Dr. Clayton, master of Pembroke College, and regius professor of physic, and in April 1650 entered Clare Hall, Cambridge, as a fellow-commoner, became acquainted with Francis Glisson [q. v.], the regius professor of physic, and took the degree of M.D. 1 July 1652. He told Glisson when he called on him to make the necessary arrangements for graduation, that besides arteries, veins, and nerves, a fourth and distinct set of vessels existed, distributed to several parts of the body, and containing a watery humour. He had, he said, made out these vessels in numerous animals and in several parts of the body, and he was sure that the fluid contained in them moved towards the mesentery, and especially towards the beginning of it (Glisson, Anatomia Hepatis, Amsterdam, 1659, ch. xxxi. p. 319). Glisson's statement, first published in 1654, is conclusive evidence as to the originality of Joyliffe's anatomical discovery of the lymph ducts, and was no doubt made then because of the publications of Rudbeck (‘Exercitatio exhibens ductus Hepaticos Aquosos et Vasa Glandularum Serosa,’ Westeräs, 1653) and of Thomas Bartholinus (‘Vasa Lymphatica,’ Copenhagen, 1653), both anatomists who had also dissected out the main lymphatic trunks. Joyliffe was admitted a candidate of the College of Physicians 4 April 1653, lectured there on the vasa lymphatica, and was elected a fellow 25 June 1658. His house was on Garlick Hill, London, and there he died 11 Nov. 1658. He did not himself make his discovery known in print.
[Gardiner's Wadham College Register, p. 133; Munk's Coll. of Phys. i. 280; Wood's Athenæ Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 351; Hamey's Bustorum Aliquot Reliquiæ, manuscript at Coll. of Physicians; Philosophical Transactions, 1668; Glisson's Anatomia Hepatis, ed. 1659.]
