Edmund Calamy (February 1600-October 29, 1666) was an English Presbyterian church leader. Known as "the elder", he was the first of four generations of nonconformist ministers bearing the same name.
The Calamy family claimed to be of Huguenot descent. Edmund Calamy was born in the parish of St Thomas the Apostle, London, and educated at Merchant Taylor's School and then Pembroke College, Cambridge, where his opposition to the Arminianism excluded...
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Edmund Calamy (February 1600-October 29, 1666) was an English Presbyterian church leader. Known as "the elder", he was the first of four generations of nonconformist ministers bearing the same name.
The Calamy family claimed to be of Huguenot descent. Edmund Calamy was born in the parish of St Thomas the Apostle, London, and educated at Merchant Taylor's School and then Pembroke College, Cambridge, where his opposition to the Arminianism excluded him from a fellowship. Nicholas Felton, Bishop of Ely, nevertheless made him his chaplain, and gave him the living of St Mary, Swaffham Prior, which he held till 1626.
He then moved to Bury St Edmunds, where he lectured for ten years, the later Congregationalist Jeremiah Burroughs was the another preacher in the town He retired when his bishop Matthew Wren insisted on the observance of certain ceremonial articles: Calamy refused to read out the Book of Sports in his church. In 1636 he was appointed rector (or perhaps only lecturer) of...
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