Edmund Scambler
Edmund Scambler (c.1520–1594) was an English bishop.
Life
He was born at Gressingham, and was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge and Queens' College, Cambridge.[1]
Under Mary I of England he was pastor to a covert Protestant congregation in London.[2] He was a chaplain to Archbishop Matthew Parker.[3]
He became Bishop of Peterborough in 1560, and was a reviser of the Bishops' Bible.[4] He suspended Eusebius Pagit, then vicar of Lamport, in 1574.[5]
In 1585 he became Bishop of Norwich. He was responsible there for the heresy proceedings against Francis Kett.[6]
Notes
- ^ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53271
- ^ Patrick Collinson, The Elizabethan Puritan Movement (1982), p. 61.
- ^ Dictionary of National Biography, article Parker, Matthew.
- ^ http://www.katapi.org.uk/BibleMSS/Ch11.htm
- ^ Dictionary of National Biography, article Pagit, Eusebius.
- ^ Dewey D. Wallace, Jr., From Eschatology to Arian Heresy: The Case of Francis Kett (d. 1589), The Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 67, No. 4 (Oct., 1974), pp. 459-473.
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