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Thomas Crooke (c.1545–1598) was a sixteenth-century English clergyman of strongly Calvinist views. He was the father of the lawyer and politician Sir Thomas Crooke, 1st Baronet, founder of the town of Baltimore, County Cork, and of Helkiah Crooke, physician to King James I. ==Life== He was born at Cransley in Northamptonshire. From his will we know that he had several siblings and that his father after his mother's death remarried a Mrs. Joyner, who was still alive in 1595. His son Thomas in his will of 1629 left a legacy to "my good old Aunt Hudson", who was probably his father's sister; she was still alive in 1635. Sir George Croke, one of the High Court judges who heard the Case of Ship Money, was referred to as his cousin, but the exact connection is unclear. He went to school in Stamford and matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1560, becoming scholar in 1562, Bachelor of Arts 1563 and Master of Arts 1566. He was ordained in 1568 in Norwich and presented to the living of Great Waldingfield, Suffolk in 1571. He graduated Doctor of Theology from Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1578. Great Waldingfield From the beginning of his career he belonged to the "godly elite", the circle of Calvinist clerics who included John Foxe, Thomas Cartwright, John Field and Thomas Wilcox, all of whom were friends of his. He was a member of the conference which first met in 1570 to press its program of ecclesiastical reform on Parliament. Unlike some of his colleagues he has left no published works and does not seem to have played a leading part in the religious debates of the time. However his strong Calvinist views were well known to the Church authorities; perhaps as a precaution against persecution he obtained the position of preacher to Gray's Inn, being "specially appointed" in 1582. He combined this with the living of St. Mary Woolchurch. This apparently saved him from a serous clash with either John Aylmer, Bishop of London or John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury; the authorities even enlisted him from time to time to engage in controversy with the Jesuits. He became reader at St Peter, Westcheap in 1597. He died in 1598 and as requested in his will (an unusually long and detailed one) was buried in St. Mary Woolchurch "without superstition or vanity... since it is there that a great part of my poor labours have been bestowed for many years". 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「Thomas Crooke (priest)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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