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Martin Heton (Heaton) (1554–1609) was an English bishop. ==Life== His father George Heton was prominent in the London commercial world and as a church reformer.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Introduction - The Chamber in the sixteeth century | Chamber accounts of the sixteenth century (pp. XXXII-XXXVIII) )〕〔http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/johnfoxe/apparatus/usheressay.html〕〔ODNB entries for George Heton and his brother Thomas Heton.〕 His mother Joanna was daughter of Martin Bowes, Lord Mayor of London in 1545.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Townships - Heaton | A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 5 (pp. 9-12) )〕 He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford.〔Concise Dictionary of National Biography〕 He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford in 1588.〔http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/oxford_people/key_university_officers/vcs_of_oxford.html〕 He became Dean of Winchester in 1589, and Bishop of Ely in 1599.〔 There is a story that Elizabeth I applied pressure to him, or his predecessor Richard Cox, over some land deals disadvantageous to the diocese, in a letter beginning “Proud prelate!”〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ely Place | Old and New London: Volume 2 (pp. 514-526) )〕 But scholars from the nineteenth century onwards, for example Mandell Creighton, have considered the letter in question a hoax of the eighteenth century.〔:s: The English Church in the Reign of Elizabeth〕 A fat man, Heton was supposedly complimented by the king James I with the comment "Fat men are apt to make lean sermons; but yours are not lean, but larded with good learning."〔''Remains, historical & literary, connected with the palatine counties of Lancaster and Chester'' (1844-86), (online text ).〕 He died in Mildenhall, Suffolk in 1609 and is buried in Ely Cathedral. 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「Martin Heton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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