John Barly, D.D. was a priest and academic at the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th.Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part II. 1752–1900 Vol. i. Abbas – Cutts, (1922) p88

Barly was educated at Gonville Hall, Cambridge graduating B.A. in 1461 and M.A. in 1465. He was a Fellow of Gonville from 1466 to 1483; and held livings at Barningham Wynter, Mattishall and Winterton. He was Master of Gonville (and Rector of St Michael Coslany, Norwich) from 1483 until his death in 1504."Biographical History of Gonville and Caius College" John Venn/John Archibald Venn p27: Cambridge; CUP; 1901

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