Thomas Cole (archdeacon of Essex)

Thomas Cole (died 1571) was an English Protestant churchman, a Marian exile who became archdeacon of Essex.

Life

A native of Lincolnshire, he graduated M.A. at Oxford.^[1] He held the mastership of Maidstone School in 1552, but emigrated to Frankfurt on the accession of Queen Mary. There he made the acquaintance of John Knox. He subsequently moved to Geneva.

Having returned to England Cole was presented to the rectory of High Ongar, Essex, in 1559. He was collated to the archdeaconry of Essex in the ensuing year, and subsequently appointed commissary of the archbishop in the archdeaconries of Essex and Colchester. In 1560 he was also installed in the prebend of Rugmere in St. Paul's Cathedral.

Cole was present at the Convocation of 1563 and subscribed the original Thirty-nine Articles and the petition for discipline presented by the lower house. In 1564 he commenced D.D. at Cambridge, and the same year he was presented to the rectory of Stanford Rivers, Essex. He had a reputation for eloquence and also for a tendency towards nonconformity. He died in 1571. He was buried at St Mary Abchurch 2 July 1571 ^[2]

Works

Cole published:

A sermon preached at Maidstone in Lent, 1553; and also
A sermon preached before the queen at Windsor in 1564.

He had a hand in the framing of the Genevan form of worship.

References

"Cole, Thomas (d.1571)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

Notes

^ "Cole, Thomas (CL564T)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
^ London Metropolitan Archives P69/MRY4/A/001/MS04546

Attribution

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Cole, Thomas (d.1571)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

[1] "Cole, Thomas (CL564T)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

[2] London Metropolitan Archives P69/MRY4/A/001/MS04546

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v t e Archdeacons of Essex and of West Ham
High Medieval	Theobald Walter Richard Ruffus Robert Banastre Richard de Hegham Theobald de Valognes Thomas de Fauconberg Hugh de Sancto Edmundo Stephen de Sandwic Richard of Gravesend Adam de Faversham Roger de La Legh Robert Winchelsey Laurence de Fuscis de Bera
Late Medieval	Aldebrand Riccardi de Militiis Hildebrand de Anibaldis Stephen de Segrave John de Elham William Vygerous Robert de Canterbury Hugh de Statherne John de Bouser William de Rothwell John Barnet John de Cantebrugg Roger de Freton Henry de Winterton Richard Prentys Edward Prentys John Shirborne Zanobius Mulakyn James Goldwell John Gunthorpe John Crall Edmund Audley Thomas Jane
Early modern	John de Lopez Francis de Busleiden Richard Rawson Edward Moylle Thomas Darbyshire Thomas Cole John Walker William Tabor Samuel Harsnett George Goldman Edward Layfield Thomas Turner Charles Alston Thomas Gooch Reuben Clerke William Gibson Thomas Rutherforth Stotherd Abdy James Waller
Late modern (Essex)	William Gretton Francis Wollaston Hugh Jones Carew St John Mildmay Gaspard-le-Marchant Carey Alfred Blomfield Henry Johnson Thomas Stevens, Bishop of Barking James Inskip, Bishop of Barking (became Archdeacon of West Ham)
West Ham	James Inskip (previously Archdeacon of Essex) Hugh Gough John Elvin Denis Wakeling James Adams John Taylor Peter Dawes Roger Sainsbury Tim Stevens Michael Fox Elwin Cockett Mike Power

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