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CALAMY, EDMUND

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 967 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CALAMY, See also:EDMUND , known as " the See also:elder " (1600-1666), See also:English Presbyterian divine, was See also:born of Huguenot descent in Walbrook, See also:London, in See also:February 1600, and educated at See also:Pembroke See also:Hall, See also:Cambridge, where his opposition to the Arminian party, then powerful in that society, excluded him from a fellowship. See also:Nicholas See also:Felton, See also:bishop of See also:Ely, however, made him his See also:chaplain, and gave him the living of St See also:Mary, See also:Swaffham See also:Prior, which he held till 1626. He then removed to See also:Bury St See also:Edmunds, where he acted as lecturer for ten years, retiring when his bishop (See also:Wren) insisted on the observance of certain ceremonial articles. In 1636 he was appointed See also:rector (or perhaps only lecturer) of See also:Rochford in See also:Essex, which was so unhealthy that he had soon to leave it, and in 1639 he was elected to the perpetual curacy of St Mary Aldermanbury in London, where he had a large following. Upon the opening of the See also:Long See also:Parliament he distinguished himself in See also:defence of the Presbyterian cause, and had a See also:principal See also:share in See also:writing the conciliatory See also:work known as Smectymnuus, against Bishop See also:Joseph Hall's presentation of See also:episcopacy. The See also:initials of the names of the several contributors formed the name under which it was published, viz., S. See also:Marshal, E. Calamy, T. See also:Young, M. See also:Newcomen and W. Spurstow. Calamy was an active member in the See also:Westminster See also:assembly of divines, and, refusing to advance to See also:Congregationalism, found in See also:Presbyterianism the See also:middle course which best suited his views of See also:theology and See also:church See also:government.

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execution of See also:Charles I., lived quietly under the See also:Commonwealth, and was assiduous in promoting the See also:king's return; for this he was after-wards offered the bishopric of See also:Coventry and See also:Lichfield, but declined it, it is said, on his wife's persuasion. He was made one of Charles's chaplains, and vainly tried to secure the legal ratification of Charles's See also:declaration of the 25th of See also:October 1660. He was ejected for See also:Nonconformity in 1662, and was so affected by the sight of the devastation caused by the See also:great See also:fire of London that he died shortly afterwards, on the 29th of October 1666. He was buried in the ruins of his church, near the See also:place where the See also:pulpit had stood. His publications are almost entirely sermons. His eldest son (Edmund), known as " the younger," was educated at Cambridge, and was ejected from the rectory of Moreton, Essex, in 1662. He was of a retiring disposition and moderate views, and died in 1685.

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