Henry Caesar (priest)

He was also known as Henry Adelmare,[1] being a member of the illustrious 400 year-old Venetian family of Adelmaria of Treviso, as is stated on his monument.

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.

at Oxford;[2] on 13 Sept. 1596 was presented by the queen to the rectory of St 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,[3] and Dean of Ely in October 1614.

The inscription in Latin is as follows:[4] On the Pavement underneath is this on his Grave-stone: Hic jacet Henricus Cæsar, sacrae Theologiae Professor, quintus huius Ecclesiae Decanus, de stirpe illustri Adelmariorum familiae nobilis Trevesana Venetorum in Italia oriundus.

Sir Charles chose Jesus College, Cambridge, which received annuities from the family until 1668, but never obtained the capital.