Edmund Scambler

The Right Reverend Edmund Scambler
Bishop of Norwich

Church	Church of England
Diocese	Diocese of Norwich
Installed	1585
Term ended	1594 (death)
Predecessor	Edmund Freke
Successor	William Redman
Other posts	Bishop of Peterborough (1561–1585)
Personal details
Born	c. 1520 Gressingham, Lancashire
Died	7 May 1594(1594-05-07)
Nationality	English
Denomination	Anglican
Alma mater	Peterhouse, Cambridge

Edmund Scambler (c. 1520 – 7 May 1594) was an English bishop.

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] He was a chaplain to Archbishop Matthew Parker.^[5]

He became Bishop of Peterborough in 1561, and was a reviser of the Bishops' Bible.^[3]^[6] He suspended 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.
↑ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53271
1 2 "Scambler, Edmund". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
↑ Patrick Collinson, The Elizabethan Puritan Movement (1982), p. 61.
↑ "Parker, Matthew". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
↑ http://www.katapi.org.uk/BibleMSS/Ch11.htm
↑ "Pagit, Eusebius". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
↑ 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.

Church of England titles
Preceded by David Poole	Bishop of Peterborough 1561–1584	Succeeded by Richard Howland
Preceded by Edmund Freke	Bishop of Norwich 1585–1594	Succeeded by William Redman

Bishops of Peterborough

Early modern	John Chambers David Pole Edmund Scambler Richard Howland Thomas Dove William Piers Augustine Lindsell Francis Dee John Towers Benjamin Lany Joseph Henshaw William Lloyd Thomas White Richard Cumberland White Kennett Robert Clavering John Thomas Richard Terrick Robert Lamb John Hinchliffe

Late modern	Spencer Madan John Parsons Herbert Marsh George Davys Francis Jeune William Magee Mandell Creighton Edward Glyn Frank Woods Cyril Bardsley Claude Blagden Spencer Leeson Robert Stopford Cyril Easthaugh Douglas Feaver Bill Westwood Ian Cundy Donald Allister

Bishops of Norwich

Bishops of Elmham	Bedwinus Northbertus Headulacus Æthelfrith Eanfrith Æthelwulf Alherdus Sybba Hunferthus Humbertus See interrupted Eadwulf Ælfric I Theodred I Theodred II Athelstan Ælfgar Ælfwine Ælfric II Ælfric III Stigand Grimketel Stigand (again) Æthelmær Herfast see removed to Thetford

Bishops of Thetford	Herfast William de Beaufeu Herbert de Losinga see removed to Norwich

High Medieval	Herbert de Losinga Everard of Calne William de Turbeville John of Oxford John de Gray Pandulf Verraccio Thomas Blunville Simon of Elmham William de Raley Walter Suffield Simon Walton Roger Skerning William Middleton Ralph Walpole

Late Medieval	John Salmon Robert Baldock William Ayermin Thomas Hemenhale Antony Bek William Bateman Thomas Percy Henry le Despenser Alexander Tottington Richard Courtenay John Wakering William Alnwick Thomas Brunce Walter Hart James Goldwell Thomas Jane

Early modern	Richard Nykke William Rugg Thomas Thirlby John Hopton John Parkhurst Edmund Freke Edmund Scambler William Redman John Jegon John Overall Samuel Harsnett Francis White Richard Corbet Matthew Wren Richard Montagu Joseph Hall Edward Reynolds Anthony Sparrow William Lloyd John Moore Charles Trimnell Thomas Green John Leng William Baker Robert Butts Thomas Gooch Samuel Lisle Thomas Hayter Philip Yonge Lewis Bagot George Horne Charles Manners-Sutton

Late modern	Henry Bathurst Edward Stanley Samuel Hinds John Pelham John Sheepshanks Bertram Pollock Percy Herbert Launcelot Fleming Maurice Wood Peter Nott Graham James

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 78931040

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