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EDWARD FOX (c. 1496-1538)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 765 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDWARD See also:FOX (c. 1496-1538)  , See also:bishop of See also:Hereford, was See also:born about 1496 at Dursley in See also:Gloucestershire; he is said on very doubtful authority to have been related to See also:Richard See also:Fox (q.v.) . From See also:Eton he proceeded to See also:King's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, and after graduating was made secretary to See also:Wolsey . In 1528 he was sent with See also:Gardiner to See also:Rome to obtain from See also:Clement VII. a decretal See also:commission for the trial and decision of the See also:case between See also:Henry VIII. and See also:Catherine of See also:Aragon . On his return he was elected See also:provost of King's College, and in See also:August 1529 was the means of conveying to the king See also:Cranmer's historic See also:advice that he should apply to the See also:universities of See also:Europe rather than to the See also:pope . This introduction led eventually to Cranmer's promotion over Fox's See also:head to the archbishopric of See also:Canterbury . After a brief See also:mission to See also:Paris in See also:October 1529, Fox in See also:January 1530 befriended See also:Latimer at . Cambridge and took an active See also:part in persuading that university and See also:Oxford to decide in the king's favour . He was sent to employ similar methods of persuasion at the See also:French universities in 1530-1531, and was also engaged in negotiating a closer See also:league between See also:England and See also:France . In See also:April 1533 he was See also:prolocutor of See also:convocation when it decided against the validity of Henry's See also:marriage with Catherine, and in 1534 published his See also:treatise De See also:vera differentia regiae potestatis et ecclesiae (second ed . 1538, See also:English transl . 1548) . Various ecclesiastical preferments were now granted him, including the archdeaconry of See also:Leicester (1531) and the bishopric of Hereford (1535) .

In 1535-1536 he was sent to See also:

Germany to discuss the basis of a See also:political and theological understanding with the Lutheran princes and divines, and had several interviews with See also:Luther, who could not be persuaded of the See also:justice of Henry VIII.'s See also:divorce . The See also:principal result of the mission was the See also:Wittenberg articles of 1536, which had no slight See also:influence on the English Ten Articles of the same See also:year . See also:Bucer dedicated to him in 1536 his Commentaries on the Gospels, and Fox's Protestantism was also illustrated by his patronage of See also:Alexander Aless, whom he defended before Convocation . Fox is credited with the authorship of several proverbial sayings, such as " the surest way to See also:peace is a See also:constant preparedness for See also:war " and " See also:time and I will challengeany two in the See also:world." The former at any See also:rate is only a variation of the Latin si vis pacem, See also:Para bellum, and probably the latter is not more See also:original in Fox than in See also:Philip II., to whom it is usually ascribed . Fox died on the 8th of May 1538 and was buried in the See also:church of St See also:Mary Mounthaw, See also:London . His See also:chief distinction is perhaps that he was the most Lutheran of Henry VIII.'s bishops, and was largely responsible for the Ten Articles of 1536 . See Letters and Papers of Henry VIII., vols. iv.-xiv.; See also:Cooper's Athenae Cantabrigienses; See also:Diet . Nat . Biogr.; R . W . See also:Dixon's Church See also:History; G . Mentz, See also:Die Wittenberger A rtikel von 1536 (1905) .

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