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Edward Foxe (c.
1496 –
May 8,
1538) was an
English churchman,
Bishop of Hereford. He was the most
Lutheran of Henry VIII's bishops, and assisted in drafting the
Ten Articles of 1536.
He was born at
Dursley in
Gloucestershire, and may have been related to
Richard Fox, Bishop of Exeter and Lord of the Privy Seal under Henry VII. Foxe was educated at
Eton College and at
King's College, Cambridge. After graduating in 1520, he was made secretary to
Cardinal Wolsey in 1527. In 1528 he was sent with Bishop
Stephen Gardiner to
Rome to obtain from
Pope Clement VII a decretal commission for the trial and decision of the case between King
Henry VIII of England and his first wife,
Catherine of Aragon.
On his return Foxe was elected
Provost of King's College, and in August 1529 was the means of conveying to the king
Thomas Cranmer's historic advice that he should apply to the universities of Europe rather than to the pope. This introduction led eventually to Cranmer's promotion over Foxe's head to the
archbishopric of Canterbury. After a brief mission to
Paris in October 1529, Foxe in January 1530 befriended
Hugh Latimer at Cambridge and took an active part in persuading the English universities to decide in the king's favour. He was sent to employ similar methods of persuasion at the French universities in 1530-1531, and was also engaged in negotiating a closer league between England and France. In April 1533 he was prolocutor of
convocation when it decided against the validity of Henry's marriage with Catherine, and in 1534 published his treatise
De vera differentia regiae potestatis et ecclesiae (second ed. 1538, English transl 1548).
Various ecclesiastical preferments were now granted him, including the
archdeaconry of Leicester (1531), the
deanery of Salisbury (1533) and the bishopric of
Hereford (1535). In 1535-1536 he was sent to
Germany to discuss the basis of a political and theological understanding with the
Lutheran princes and divines, and had several interviews with
Martin Luther, who couldn't be persuaded of the justice of Henry VIII's divorce. The principal result of the mission was the
Wittenberg articles of 1536, which had no slight influence on the English
Ten Articles of the same year. In 1536, Bucer dedicated to him his
Commentaries on the Gospels, and Foxe's
Protestantism was also illustrated by his patronage of
Alexander Ales, whom he defended before Convocation.
Foxe is credited with the authorship of several proverbial sayings, such as "the surest way to peace is a constant preparedness for war" and "time and I'll challenge any two in the world." The former at any rate is only a variation of the Latin
si vis pacem, para bellum, and probably the latter isn't more original in Foxe than in
Philip II of Spain, to whom it's usually ascribed. Foxe was buried in the church of
St Mary Mounthaw,
London.
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