William Fulke (; 1538buried 28 August 1589) was an English

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Life

He was born in

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and educated at

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graduating in 1557/58. After studying law for six years, he became a fellow at St John's College, Cambridge in 1564. He took a leading part in the vestiarian controversy, and persuaded the college to discard the

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. In consequence, he was expelled from St John's for a time, but in 1567 he became

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lecturer and preacher there. After standing unsuccessfully for the headship of the college in 1569, he became chaplain to

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, and received from him the livings of Warley, in

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, and

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. In 1578 he was elected master of

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. As a Puritan controversialist he was remarkably active; in 1580 the

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appointed him to defend puritanism against the

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s, Thomas Watson, ex-

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(1513–1584), and

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, formerly abbot of

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, and in 1581 he was one of the disputants with the

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, while in 1582 he was among the clergy selected by the

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to argue against any Roman Catholic.

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'' (

, 1583), and confutations of Thomas Stapleton (1535–1598),

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and other Roman Catholic controversialists.''The Battle Over The Hebrew Vowel Points, Examined Particularly As Waged in England'', by Thomas D. Ross, pp. 13-1
Online
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