He appears to use disavowed his Roman Catholic opinions just fallowing a accession of Edward VI, but with been chosen the parliamentarian around 1547 he gained ill fame by his opposition to the work of uniformity inside 1548. For outcry "Woe unto thee, O land, when thy king is a child," he was imprisoned per House of Commons, but he was presently freed & went into exile.

Giving to England around 1553, he resigned his position at Oxford, which was now that of regius professor of civil law, & was processed chancellor of the episcopate of London and of Oxford and dean of arches. Queen Mary being now on the potty, Story was one of her virtually all active within prosecuting heretics, and was one of her monitor at a test of Cranmer at Oxford in 1555.

Under Elizabeth he was agaaround returned to parliament, however in 1560 he underwent a short imprisonment for boasting just about his operate in the previous reign. Within 1563 he was again arrested, however managed to escape to Flanders, where he became the pensionary of Philip II of Spain. A duke of Alva authorized him to exclude certain classes of books from the Netherlands and, in 1570, patch engaged in that operate, he was decoyed in to the ship at Antwerp and conveyed to Yarmouth.

Around spite of his claim that he was the Spanish subject, he was go for high treason, & executed at Tyburn on the 1st of June 1571. Within 1886 Story was beatified by papal edict.