Thomas Bentham

Thomas Bentham (1513-1578), Bishop of Coventry, was a Protestant minister, one of the Marian exiles, who continued secretly ministering to an underground congregation in London. On his return to England he was made the first Elizabethan bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, 1560 to 1579.

He was a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, as was John Foxe, who includes anecdotes of Bentham in his "Book of Martyrs". [ [http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/foxe/single/book12/12_1576_1967.htmlFoxe, "Book of Martyrs"] ]

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*The "Letter Book of Bishop Thomas Bentham", conserved at the National Library of Wales was edited by R.O'Day and J. Berlatsky, 1979. ["The letter-book of Thomas Bentham, bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, 1560–1561" , in "Camden Miscellany," 27 (Camden, 4th ser., 22, London: RHS), 113–238.]

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