Edmund Coppinger (died 1592) was an English puritan. He was a supporter of controversialist William Hacket.
He is described by Richard Cosin as "descended of a good house and linage, and one of her Maiestie's sworne servants, but a younger brother, having no great livelihood".Cosin's Pretended Reformation, 1592; Stow's Annales, ed. Howes, 1615, pp. 760–1; Fuller's Church History, book ix. With a Yorkshire gentleman, Henry Arthington, he championed the claims of the notorious religious enthusiast, William Hacket, who had a wild scheme for abolishing bishops and deposing Queen Elizabeth I. Hacket proclaimed himself to be the Messiah, and Coppinger joined Arthington in holding a demonstration in Cheapside to support the impostor's claim. The three men were thrown into prison. Hacket was hanged on 28 July 1592; Coppinger died eight days afterwards from voluntary starvation; Arthington repented of his errors and was pardoned. The affair caused considerable excitement.
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