Jerome Beale was

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of Pembroke from 1619 to 1630; and

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of the

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in 1622 to 1623. Beale was born in

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. He graduated

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from

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in 1596;

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from

Pembroke College, Cambridge Pembroke College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college is the third-oldest college of the university and has over 700 students and fellows. It is one of the university's larger colleges, with buildings from ...

in 1599; B.D. in 1607 and

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in 1619. He held

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, Hardwicke and Willingham. Beale cited and defended the Dutch Arminian literature. He held

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1630 deaths 17th-century English Anglican priests Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge Arminian ministers Arminian writers Fellows of Pembroke College, Cambridge Masters of Pembroke College, Cambridge People from Worcestershire Vice-chancellors of the University of Cambridge {{England-academic-bio-stub