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ftdelily, and the strictest attention to the letter of the text, be supposed to constitute the quali- ties of an excellent rersion, this of all versions must, in general, be accounted the most excel- lent Every sentence, every word, every syllable, every letter and point seem to have been weighed with the nicest exactitude, and expressed either in the text, or margin, with the greatest precision." Some of the editions of this bible, especially the folio and quarto copies, were accompaniea with genealogia of impture, by John Speed. A patent was granted him by the king, for securing the property of this work to him and his heirs.
of the lal^ect and Ubertr of conadence. Re fonoded an hospital at Onildford, which he liberally endowed with ^300 per annam, for the employment and maintenance of a certain number of indigent persona. Re died at Croy. deo, Aagost 5, 1633, at the age of 71 > and was buried in the church of the Holy Trinity, at Guildford. He left Mveral Uifge sums to charitable purposes; beside con- siderable donattons to the nnivenity of Oxford. His pub- lications were chiefly, though not entirely, in divinity ; his Hittory of the Mtutacre in the Valtolint, was printed in the 3d volume of Fox's Actt and MonumenU.
William Bailow, D.D., was born at Barlow, in Lanca- shire, became fellow of Trinity college, Cambridge ; pre- bendary of Westminster; and in I603 dean of Chester; in 16«5 he was made bishop of Rochester, and in 160B trans- lated to the see of Lincoln. He died in I6I3, and was buried at his palace at Bugden.
William DaUn, B.D., was educated at Westminster, and liom thence he removed to Cambridge, and was admitted into Trinity college. May 8, 1»87. On the I6th of March, 1593, he was chosen senior fellow. In 1802, he was Oieek lecturer of bis college; and In IflM, he succeeded Dr. Gray, as professor of divinity, in Oiesham college, Lon- don. Mr. Dakin was also chosen junior dean of Trinity college, October s, l6o6; but dying in the February fol- lowing, had not the happiness of teeing the great work comnleted in which he was engaged.
Gues Thompson, or Tomson, D.D., was born in Lon- don ; and in 1 971, was entered an exhibitioner of Univer- sity college. He became chaplain to qoeen Elizabeth, residentiary of Hereford, rector of Penlbridge, in Here- fordshire, dean of Windsor, registrar bf the most noble order of the garter, and in 161 1 was advanced to the see of Gloucester. He died in 1612, to the grief of thosewho knew and honoured his piety and learning.
Samuel Ward, D.D., was of a good family, and was bom at Bishop's Middleham, in the bishopric of Durham. Be was educated at Cambridge, and on January s, iBay, was chosen master of Sidney Sussex college. He obtained many valuable pnferments in the church ; and in 1624 was rector of Much-Munden, in Hertfordshire. He was one of the divines sent by James 1. to the synod at Dort, in HIS. On the breaking out of the civil wars, he suf- fered severe persecution, was deprived of his mastership and professorship, and plundered and imprisoned, both in his own and St. John's college. He is said to have died In great want, September 7, 1643. He was buried in Sid- ney Sussex chapd.
Thomas Bilson, D.D., who assisted Dr. Miles Smith in the final revision of the Bible, was of German descent, from a family related to the duke of Bavaria ; was a native of Winchester, where he received bis education at Wykeham school. In 1S63, he was admitted perpetual fellow of New college, Oxford. He so distinguished him- self by his leainiu^ and talents, that he rose to be pre- bendary of Winchester, warden of the college there ; and at length bishop of Worcester, iu 1596, and in the fol- lowing year translated to Winchester. Among other works, he published a Sunef 0/ ChritVt Sttferaigi and Deament into Hell, which ocrauloned much debate. He died June IS, 1O16, and was buried in Westminster abbey.
Roger Andrews, D.D., was brother to Lancelot Andrews, btohop of Winchester. He was fellow of Pembroke hall, and master of Jesus college, Cambridge. He was also prebendanr of Chichester and SouthwelL
Robert Spalding, D.D., was fellow of St. John's college, Cambridge, and king's professor of Hebrew.
Andrew Bing, or Byng, D.D., fellow of St. Peter's col- lege, Cambridge, and king's professor of Hebrew, in that ooiversity. In May, 1809, he was collated to the sub- deanery of York; and in April, 16I8, he was installed archdeacon of Norwich. He died during the Intowjninn.
In the British moseum there is another edi- tion of this Bible, of the same date. They are word for word the same throughout. One copy, however, is printed in a larger letter than Uie other, and makes a thicker volume, but it is impossible to determine which of these two were first printed
1611. Valentine Sims, or Simmes dwelt at the sign of the White Swan, near Barnard castle, in Addle, or Adling-street, from 1596, to tiiis time.
161 1 . Conrad Vorstios, a professor of divinity at Leyden, published a work on die iVo«iire and Attributet of God, on which, being presented to king James I. at London, his majesty ordered the book to be burnt by the common hangman, and also wrote an answer, called the Declaration, to which he added the following singular dedi- cation to our Saviour :
" To the honour of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of the eternal Fa- ther, the only theanthropos, mediator and recon- ciler of mankind, in sign of thankfulness, his most humble and obliged servant, James by ihe grace of God, king of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, doth dedi- cate and consecrate this his declaration." The Puritans arraigned this as indecency ; and why not books to the sacred dead.
James not being satisfied with depressing the Catholics and Puritans at home, thus entered the lists of d^utation with the Arminians and Gowerists. He attacked Bellarmine, the cham- pion of the Catholics, and reminded him, "that, as king of England, he was defender of the faith, and that it consequently became his duty to remand all abominable doctrines to hell. ' He likewise remonstrated with the Dutch govern- ment, and the result was, that a synod was held at Dort, and seven hundred families of Armini- ans were driven into exile, and reduced to beggary. Vorstius himself was compelled to leave lieyden, and retired to Torringen, in Hol- stein, where he died, September 29, 1622. He was born at Cologne, July 19, 1669.
To the great astonishment of the whole world, be it told, that John Norton refused to print his majesty's (king James's) Latin work against Vorstius without getting the money firtt ! Tem- pera mutantur. Lydiat tells the above story to archbishop Usher.
A Welsh bishop, who had written a work, made an apology to king James I. for preferring the Deity to his majesty in the dedication.
1611. In or about wis year, the company of stationers thought proper to remove from their old hall to the situation they now occupy ; and on the 1 1th of April in this year, the purchase of Bergavenny house was ordered to be paid for from the stock of the partners in the privilege. That house is thus described : " At the north end of Ave Mary-lane, is one great house, builded of stone and timber, of old time pertaining to John duke of Britaine, earl of Richmond, as appeareth by the records of Edward II. Since that, it was called Pembroke Inne, neere unto
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