Thomas Sedgwick (Segiswycke) (died 1573 in a Yorkshire prison) was an English

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theologian. An unfriendly hand in 1562 describes him as "learned but not very wise". Thomas Sedgwick was educated at the

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, where he graduated B.A. in 1529/30 and became a Fellow of

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in 1531. He argued against Martin Bucer in 1550, alongside Andrew Perne and

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; and against

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, and Nicholas Ridley in April 1554, when he was incorporated Doctor of Divinity at the

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. In 1546 he became a Fellow of

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, where he was vice-master 1554–55. He had been defeated by Andrew Perne in a contest for the mastership at Peterhouse; sources differ on whether he had the support of

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. Under Queen Mary he became Regius professor of divinity at Cambridge in 1557, and in 1558 both rector of Stanhope, Durham and vicar of Gainford, Durham. He was deprived of these three preferments after the accession of Queen Elizabeth. He had also been rector of

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, Suffolk in 1552, become

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in 1554, made vicar of

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in 1555,Enfield - Churches , British History Online
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in 1556, but had given up these four preferments before Queen Mary died. He was restricted to within ten miles of

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, from 1562 to 1570, when he seems to have been sent to prison at York.

References

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''Publications'', V (London, 1905), 193; *Record Office, State Papers Dom. Arc. Eliz., XVII, 72; * Henry Gee, ''The Elizabethan Clergy and the Settlement of Religion, 1558-1564'' (1898), passim.

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