The Jacob Barnet affair occurred in 1612 when a Jewish teacher by the name of Jacob Barnet was arrested and imprisoned by officials of the University of Oxford for changing his mind about being baptised. == Background == Throughout the Middle Ages and up until the 1850s the University of Oxford required all students and the faculty staff to be Christians; following the English Reformation, they were required to be members of the established church (the Church of England).
The Jacob Barnet affair occurred in 1612 when a Jewish teacher by the name of Jacob Barnet was arrested and imprisoned by officials of the University of Oxford for changing his mind about being baptised. == Background == Throughout the Middle Ages and up until the 1850s the University of Oxford required all students and the faculty staff to be Christians; following the English Reformation, they were required to be members of the established church (the Church of England).
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