English bishop
Edmund Scambler (c. 1520 – 7 May 1594) was an English bishop from Cambridge University . He served as pastor under Queen Mary Tudor .
Life
He was born at Gressingham , and was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge , Queens' College, Cambridge and Jesus College, Cambridge , graduating B.A. in 1542.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3]
Under Mary I of England he was pastor to a covert Protestant congregation in London.[ 4] Matthew Parker .[ 5]
He became Bishop of Peterborough in 1561, and was a reviser of the Bishops' Bible .[ 3] [ 6] Eusebius Pagit , then vicar of Lamport , in 1574.[ 7]
In 1585 he became Bishop of Norwich . He was responsible there for the heresy proceedings against Francis Kett .[ 8]
Notes
^ "Scambler, Edmund (SCMR541E)" . A Cambridge Alumni Database . University of Cambridge.^ "Townships: Gressingham | British History Online" .^ a b "Scambler, Edmund" Dictionary of National Biography ^ Patrick Collinson , The Elizabethan Puritan Movement (1982), p. 61.^ "Parker, Matthew" Dictionary of National Biography ^ "Our Bible & the Ancient MSS: Chap.11: The English Printed Bible" .^ "Pagit, Eusebius" Dictionary of National Biography ^ Dewey D. Wallace, Jr., From Eschatology to Arian Heresy: The Case of Francis Kett (d. 1589) , The Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 67, No. 4 (October 1974), pp. 459-473.
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