Reverend Edmund Gurney, of Harpley

Fellow of Corpus Coll. Cambridge; Rector of Edgefield and Harpley, Norfolk; author;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Gurney_(divine)

• Son of Henry Gurney of West Barsham and Ellingham, Norfolk, by his wife Ellen, daughter of John Blennerhasset of Barsham, [Norfolk].
• Matriculated at Queens' College, Cambridge, on 30 October 1594, and graduated B.A. in 1600.
• Elected Norfolk fellow of Corpus Christi College in 1601, proceeded M.A. in 1602, and B.D. in 1609
• 1607 he was suspended from his fellowship for not being in orders, but was reinstated by the vice-chancellor.
• 1614 he left Cambridge, on being presented to the rectory of Edgefield, Norfolk, which he held till 1620, when he received that of Harpley, Norfolk.
• Ded in 1648, and was buried at St. Peter's Mancroft, Norwich, on 14 May in that year.
• Gurney was married, and apparently had a son called Protestant (d. 1624—monument at Harpley). His wife's name was Ellen.

Works
* Corpus Christi, Cambridge, 1619, 12mo. This is a treatise against Transubstantiation, in the form of a homily on Matt. xxvi. 26.

• The Romish Chain, London, 1624.
• The Demonstration of Antichrist, London, 1631, 18mo.
• Toward the Vindication of Second Commandment, Cambridge, 1639, 24mo, a homily on Exod. xxxiv. 14, answering eight arguments commonly alleged in favour of image worship. A continuation of the preceding appeared in 1641, and was republished in 1661 as Gurnay Redivivus, or an Appendix unto the Homily against Images in Churches, London, 24mo.

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