Martin Fotherby (c. 1560–1620) was an English clergyman, who became Bishop of Salisbury.

Life

He was born in

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, and studied at the

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, where he became a Fellow of

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. He was rector of

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, and then in 1596 a prebendary of

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. He became Bishop of Salisbury in 1618 and died in London on 11 March 1620 and was buried two days later in All Hallows, Lombard Street. His brother

Charles Fotherby Charles Fotherby (c. 1549 – 1619) was a Church of England clergyman who became Dean of Canterbury (1615–1619). Life Fotherby's date of birth is not recorded but he is stated to have been 70 when he died. His father was Martin Fotherby of ...

was

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(1595–1615) and

Dean of Canterbury The Dean of Canterbury is the head of the Chapter of the Cathedral of Christ Church, Canterbury, England. The current office of Dean originated after the English Reformation, although Deans had also existed before this time; its immediate precur ...

(1615–1619).

Works

His ''Atheomastix; clearing foure truthes, against atheists and infidels'' was published posthumously in 1622, a work written against

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. According to the ''Cambridge History of English and American Literature'', (1907–21), Volume VII, Fotherby "relied chiefly on St. Thomas Aquinas in his demonstration of the being of God, and maintained that there is a "natural prenotion" that there is a God." This work was the source of many of the poetic quotations occurring in '' The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles'' (1624), by John Smith of Jamestown.

Karen Ordahl Kupperman Karen Ordahl Kupperman (born 23 April 1939) is an American historian who specializes in colonial history in the Atlantic world of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Biography Karen Ordahl Kupperman was born in Devils Lake, North Dakota on ...

, ''Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America'' (2000), p. 121.

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