Education
He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and afterwards became a member of Saint Edmund Hall in the same university.
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Career
He was also known as Henry Adelmare. While still very young, he spent some time at Cambridge University, and, being suspected of popish leanings, fled beyond sea. On his return about 1583, he recanted his former errors, and became vicar of Lostwithiel in Cornwall, but in March 1584, Sir Walter Mildmay, whom he had personally affronted, directed proceedings to be taken against him on the ground of his renewed nonconformity.
A few years later, all his enemies were silenced.
On 6 November 1595, he proceeded Doctor of Divinity at Oxford. On 13 September 1596 was presented by the queen to the rectory of Street Christopher le Stocks, in the City of London, which he resigned in July 1597.
Became rector of Somersham, Huntingdonshire. And was appointed to the second prebendary of Westminster in September 1609, and Dean of Ely in October 1614.
He resigned his prebend at Westminster in 1625.
He died, according to his epitaph, on 27 June 1636, and was buried in Ely Cathedral, where an elaborate monument was erected to his memory. Legacy
He left several bequests to the officers of the cathedral, and to friends and relations. to the foundation of two fellowships and four scholarships (open to pupils from Ely school) in some college of his own choosing. Sir Charles chose Jesus College, Cambridge, which received annuities from the family until 1668, but never obtained the capital.
