Henry Ferne [SEP] date of death
Henry Ferne
Henry Ferne (1602 – 16 March 1662) was an English bishop.
Life.
Ferne was born in York. He was admitted to St Mary Hall, Oxford, in 1618, and to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1620. He graduated B.A. in 1623 and was elected fellow in 1624. He was awarded a D.D. at Cambridge in 1642. He became Chaplain Extraordinary to Charles I; Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1660 to 1662; Dean of Ely, about 1662; Bishop
James Duport, the vice-master, to read the service-book in the college chapel, and was expelled from his office by Henry Ferne, the Master.
He became assistant to Mr. Eyres at Haverhill, Suffolk. Having received presbyterian ordination, Scandrett was prosecuted in the ecclesiastical courts for preaching after having been silenced in 1662. He was excommunicated, and afterwards sent to Bury and Ipswich gaols for preaching at Walsham-le-Willows. At a later date he preached at Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, and was again