- Henry Pendleton
Henry Pendleton (born at
Manchester ; died in London, September, 1557) was an English churchman, a theologian and controversialist.Life
He was educated at
Brasenose College, Oxford , where he received the degree ofDoctor of Divinity , 18 July, 1552. Though he had preached against Lutheranism inHenry VIII 's reign, he conformed underEdward VI and was appointed byLord Derby as an itinerant Protestant preacher. In 1552 he received the living ofBlymhill ,Staffordshire .He is described as "an able man, handsome and athletic, possessed of a fine clear voice, of ready speech and powerful utterance" (Halley, "Lancashire"). On the accession of
Mary of England he returned to the Catholic Church, and during 1554 received much preferment. He was madecanon of St. Paul's and ofLichfield . He became also Vicar ofTodenham ,Gloucester , andSt. Martin Outwich in London; in 1556 he exchanged the latter living forSt. Stephen Walbrook .He was appointed chaplain to Bishop
Edmund Bonner , for whom he wrote two homilies: "Of the Church what it is", and "Of the Authority of the Church". He also wrote "Declaration in his sickness of his faith or belief in all points as the Catholic Church teacheth against sclaunderous reports against him" (London, 1557).John Foxe purports to record some of his discussions with persons charged with heresy, and states that on his death-bed he repented of his conversion. [ [http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/johnfoxe/apparatus/person_glossaryP.html Glossary to online varorium edition of John Foxe's Book of Martyrs] ]References
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A. F. Pollard in "Dictionary of National Biography "
*Joseph Gillow , "Bibl. Dict. Eng. Cath."
*Joseph Foster, "Alumni Oxoniensis" (Oxford, 1891)
*Anthony à Wood , "Athena Oxoniensis" (London 1813-20)
*Charles Dodd , "Church History", I (Brussels vere Wolverhampton, 1737)
*George Hennessey, "Novum Repertorium Parochiale Londinense" (London, 1898)External links
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