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DUDLEY FENNER (c. 1558-1587)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 256 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DUDLEY See also:FENNER (c. 1558-1587)  , See also:English puritan divine, was See also:born in See also:Kent and educated at See also:Cambridge University . There he became an adherent of See also:Thomas See also:Cartwright (1535-1603), and publicly expounded his presbyteria.n views, with the result that he was obliged to leave Cambridge without taking his degree . For some months he seems to have assisted the See also:vicar of See also:Cranbrook, Kent, but it is doubtful whether he received ordination . He next followed Cartwright to See also:Antwerp, and, having received ordination according to rite of the Reformed See also:church, assisted Cartwright for several years in See also:preaching to the English See also:congregation there . The leniency shown by See also:Archbishop See also:Grindal to puritans encouraged him to return to See also:England, and he became See also:curate of Cranbrook in 1583 . In the same See also:year, however, he was one of seventeen, Kentish ministers suspended for refusing to sign an See also:acknowledgment of the See also:queen's supremacy and of the authority of the See also:Prayer See also:Book and articles . He was imprisoned for a See also:time, but eventually regained his See also:liberty and spent the See also:remainder of his See also:life as See also:chaplain in the Reformed church at Middleburgh . A See also:list of his See also:authentic See also:works is given in See also:Cooper's Athenae Cantabrigienses (Cambridge, 1858-1861) . They See also:rank among the best expositions of the principles of See also:puritanism .

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