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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,〔http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63712〕 gaining his M.A. there c. 1550. 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''.〔(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.〕 In 1575, he became Bishop of Norwich.〔''Concise Dictionary of National Biography''〕 There, unlike his predecessor John Parkhurst, he campaigned hard to impose uniformity in his diocese.〔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.〕 In 1579 he tried and then burnt a Norfolk plowright, Matthew Hamont, for heresy. In 1584, he became Bishop of Worcester.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edmund Freke」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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