Edmund Freke
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Edmund Freke (also spelled Freake or Freak; c. 1516–1591) was an English dean and bishop.
Life
He was born in Essex, and educated at Cambridge,[1] gaining his M.A. there c. 1550.[2]
In 1565 he was appointed Canon of the sixth stall at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, a position he held until 1572.
He was Dean of Salisbury and Dean of Rochester from 1571 to 1572 when he became Bishop of Rochester and was simultaneously Archdeacon of Canterbury in commendam.[3] In 1575, he became Bishop of Norwich.[4] There, unlike his predecessor John Parkhurst, he campaigned hard to impose uniformity in his diocese.[5][6]
In 1579 he tried and then burnt a Norfolk plowright, Matthew Hamont, for heresy.
In 1584, he became Bishop of Worcester.[4] He was also appointed Lord Almoner, a position he held until his death.[7]
Notes
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- ↑ British History Online: Archdeacons of Canterbury 1541–1857: Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, volume 3: Canterbury, Rochester and Winchester dioceses (1974), pp. 15-17. Date accessed: 10 January 2010.
- ↑ a b Concise Dictionary of National Biography
- ↑ Christopher Durston, Princes, Pastors and People: The Church and Religion in England, 1529-1689 (1991), p. 133.
- ↑ Ralph Houlbrooke, Godly Reformers and their Opponents in Early Modern England: Religion in Norwich, c.1560-1643, The English Historical Review 2007 CXXII(497), pp. 751-753.
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