Henry Pendleton
Henry Pendleton (? in Manchester – September 1557 in London) was an English churchman, a theologian and controversialist.
Life
He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity, 18 July 1552. Though he had preached against Lutheranism in Henry VIII's reign, he conformed under Edward VI and was appointed by Lord Derby as an itinerant Protestant preacher. In 1552 he received the living of Blymhill, Staffordshire.
He is described as "an able man, handsome and athletic, possessed of a fine clear voice, of ready speech and powerful utterance".Robert Halley, Lancashire. On the accession of Mary I of England he returned to the Catholic Church, and during 1554 received much preferment. He was made canon of St. Paul's and of Lichfield. He became also Vicar of Todenham, Gloucestershire, and St. Martin Outwich in London; in 1556 he exchanged the latter living for St. Stephen Walbrook.
He was appointed chaplain to Bishop Edmund Bonner, for whom he wrote two homilies: "Of the Church what it is", and "Of the Authority of the Church". He also wrote "Declaration in his sickness of his faith or belief in all points as the Catholic Church teacheth against sclaunderous reports against him" (London, 1557).
John Foxe purports to record some of his discussions with persons charged with heresy, and states that on his death-bed he repented of his conversion.{{Cite web |url=http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/johnfoxe/apparatus/person_glossaryP.html |title=Glossary to online varorium edition of John Foxe's Book of Martyrs |access-date=2008-06-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110516163400/http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/johnfoxe/apparatus/person_glossaryP.html |archive-date=2011-05-16 |url-status=dead }}
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- {{Catholic|wstitle=Henry Pendleton}} This entry cites:
- A. F. Pollard in Dictionary of National Biography
- Joseph Gillow, Bibl. Dict. Eng. Cath.
- Joseph Foster, Alumni Oxoniensis (Oxford, 1891)
- Anthony à Wood, Athena Oxoniensis (London 1813–20)
- Charles Dodd, Church History, I (Brussels vere Wolverhampton, 1737)
- George Hennessey, Novum Repertorium Parochiale Londinense (London, 1898)
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Category:Year of birth unknown
Category:Clergy from Manchester
Category:16th-century English theologians
Category:Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford
Category:English religious writers
Category:16th-century English writers