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
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
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 plowwright, Matthew Hamont, for heresy.
In 1584, he became
Lord Almoner, a position he held until his death.[7]
Notes
- ^ "Archdeacons of Canterbury | British History Online".
- ^ "Freake, Edmund (FRK550E)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Usher, Brett. Lord Burghley and Episcopacy, 1577-1603.