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| | Calamy, Edmund on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | In 1636 his opposition to the observance of certain church ceremonies forced his withdrawal as lecturer at Bury St. Edmunds. |
 | | A leader among the Presbyterians, Calamy was a member of the Westminster Assembly (1643) and was one of the authors of the Smectymnuus, directed against Bishop Joseph Hall's apology for a moderate episcopacy. |
 | | His grandson, Edmund Calamy, 1671-1732, nonconformist minister in London, also published many sermons, but he is particularly remembered for his Account of the Ministers Ejected by the Act for Uniformity (1702). |
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