William Fulke

William Fulke (/fʊlk/; 1538 – buried 28 August 1589) was an English Puritan divine.

William Fulke.

Life

He was born in London and educated at St John's College, Cambridge graduating in 1557/58.[1]

After studying law for six years, he became a fellow at St John's College, Cambridge in 1564.[2] He took a leading part in the vestiarian controversy, and persuaded the college to discard the surplice. In consequence, he was expelled from St John's for a time, but in 1567 he became Hebrew lecturer and preacher there.[1]

After standing unsuccessfully for the headship of the college in 1569, he became chaplain to Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, and received from him the livings of Warley, in Essex, and Dennington in Suffolk. In 1578 he was elected master of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge.[1]

As a Puritan controversialist he was remarkably active; in 1580 the bishop of Ely appointed him to defend puritanism against the Roman Catholics, Thomas Watson, ex-Bishop of Lincoln (1513–1584), and John Feckenham, formerly abbot of Westminster, and in 1581 he was one of the disputants with the Jesuit, Edmund Campion, while in 1582 he was among the clergy selected by the privy council to argue against any Roman Catholic.[1]

Works

His numerous polemical writings include A Defense of the Sincere and True Translations of the Holy Scriptures into the English tongue, against the Manifold Cavils, Frivolous Quarrels, and Impudent Slanders of Gregory Martin, one of the Readers of Popish Divinity, in the Traitorous Seminary of Rheims (London, 1583), and confutations of Thomas Stapleton (1535–1598), William Allen and other Roman Catholic controversialists.[1][3]

gollark: In my `writing_ideas` notes which will probably never be written I have> The world is a simulation, and a very buggy one. You can phase through walls if you walk through them at just the right angle wearing certain colors of T-shirt. Why is the clothing tear resistance code tied into collision detection? Why does it care about color? Nobody knows; it's filled with bizarre legacy code. Occasionally someone finds a really exploitable issue, runs off to certain regions of the world to “test things”, and disappears. Perhaps they manage to escape into reality somehow. Perhaps they're somehow “hired” by the admins to patch further issues. Perhaps they're just deleted to preserve stability.
gollark: (*Ra*, *Off to be the Wizard*, *Wizard's Bane*, and I can't remember any more right now)
gollark: It just needs to be sufficiently unfathomable and complex that most people won't do it.
gollark: You don't really need much of an explanation for that without this, though?
gollark: I mean, there are lots of stories vaguely similar to this, where "magic" is "programming but it magically affects reality".

References
  1.  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Fulke, William". Encyclopædia Britannica. 11 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 294.
  2. "Fulke, William (FLK555W)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. The Battle Over The Hebrew Vowel Points, Examined Particularly As Waged in England, by Thomas D. Ross, pp. 13-14 Online
Academic offices
Preceded by
John Young		 Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge
1578–1589		 Succeeded by
Lancelot Andrewes
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