ears. Wood supplies two additional names—those of Dr. John Aglionby, Principal of St. Edmund’s Hall, and Dr. Leonard Hutton, Canon of Christ Church. Others may still remain to be discovered.
The entire body was divided into six groups or companies, of which two held their meetings at Westminster, two at Cambridge, and two at Oxford. Some uncertainty being allowed for, the lists are as follows :—
First WESTMINSTER COMPANY. (Genesis—2 Kings).
(1) Dr. Lancelot Andrewes, Dean of Westminster; Master of Pembroke Hall, Camb., 1589-1605 ; Bishop of Winchester, 1619- 26. (2) Dr. John Overall, Dean of St. Paul’s; Master of St. Catherine’s Hall, Camb., 1598-1607 ; Regius Professor of Divinity, 1596-1607; Bishop of Norwich, 1618-9. (3) Dr. Hadrian a Saravia, best known as the friend of Hooker; b. at Hesdin in Artois, 1531; made Professor of Divinity at Leyden, 1582 ; in-
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* They will be found in Cardwell’s Synodatia, ed. 1844, ii. pp- 145, 146. Cardwell took them from Burnet, who ‘himself took his list from a copy belonging originally to Bishop Ravis.’
+ Mr. J. 8. Cotton has kindly referred the present writer to Olark’s Register of the Univ. of Oxford (Oxt. Hist. Soc. 1897, ii. 141), where a dispensation from the statutable exercises for the degree of D.D. is granted to Arthur Lakes, 14th May 1605, “pecause engaged on the translation of the NT in London.’ Arthur Lake, or Lakes, was at this time Master of St. Cross, after- wards Bishop of Bath and Wells. <A similar dispensation, for a like reason, dated 6th May 1605, is granted to John Harmar, In the Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, under 11th Apr. 1605, mention is made_by Bishop Bilson, writing to Sir Thomas Lake, Sec. of State, of Dr. George Ryves, Warden of New College, as a translator. This ref. also we owe to Mr. Cotton. The names of Lakes and Ryves are new. The three dates given are interesting as furnishing evidence that some of the translators, at least, had got to work as early as the spring of 1605.
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corporated D.D. at Oxford, 1590; Prebendary of Canterbury, 1595 ; d. 1613. (4) Dr. Richard Clerke, Fellow of Christ’s Coll., Oambridge ; one of the six preachers at Canterbury, 1602 ; d. 1634. (5) Dr. John Leifield, or Layfield, Fellow of Trin. Coll., Camb., 1585-1603; ‘Lector linguee Greece,’ 1593; Rector of St. Clement Danes, 1601-17 ; d. 1617. Noted for his skill in archi- tecture (Collier, Eccl. Hist. ed. 1852, vii. 337). (6) Dr. Robert Teigh, or Tighe, Archdeacon of Middlesex, 1601 ; incorporated at Oxford from Trin. Coll., Cambridge, where he graduated in 1582; d. 1616. (7) ‘Mr. Burleigh,’ probably Dr. Francis Burley, one of the earliest Fellows of King James’s College at Chelsea, (8) ‘Mr. King,’ probably Geoffrey King, Fellow of King’s Coll., Cambridge ; succeeded Dr. Robert Spalding as Regius Professor of Hebrew, 1607. (9) ‘Mr. Thompson,’ taken to be Richard Thompson, of Clare Hall, Cambridge ; called, from the land of his birth, Dutch Thompson; the friend of Casaubon and Scaliger. (10) ‘Mr. Beadwell,’ taken in like manner to be William Bedwell, scholar of Trin. Coll., Oxford, 1541 ; Rector of St. Ethelburga’s, Bishopsgate Street, 1601; tutor of Pocock.
First CAMBRIDGE CoMPANY. (1 Chron.— Ecclesiastes).
(11) Edward Lively, Fellow of Trin. Coll., 1572-8; Regius Professor of Hebrew, 1575;* d. 1605. (12) Dr. John Richard- son, successively Master of Peterhouse, 1609, and Trinity, 1615 ; Regius Professor of Divinity, 1607-17; previously Fellow of Emmanuel. (13) Dr. Laurence Chaderton, first Master of Em- manuel Coll., 1584-1622; previously Fellow of Christ’s Coll. One of the four Puritan representatives at the Hampton Court Conference. (14) Francis Dillingham, Fellow of Christ’s Coll., 1581, Praised for his knowledge of Greek. (15) Thomas Harri- son, Vice-Master of Trin. Ooll., 1611-31, (16) Dr. Roger Andrewes, brother of the bishop, Master of Jesus Coll., 1618-82. (17) Dr. Robert Spalding, Fellow of St. John’s Coll., 1593 ; suc- ceeded Lively as Regius Professor of Hebrew, 1605; d. 1607?. (18) Dr. Andrew Byng, Fellow (?) of Peterhouse; Regius Pro- fessor of Hebrew, 1608. About 1605 a stall in the cathedral church of York to be kept for him ; d. 1651.
First Oxrorp Company. (saiah—Malachi).
(19) Dr. John Harding, Regius Professor of Hebrew, 1591-8 and 1604-10; Canon of Lincoln, 1604; President of Magdalen Coll., 1607 ; d.1610. (20) Dr. John Rainolds, or Reynolds, Dean of Lincoln, 1593 ; President of Corpus Christi Coll., 1598 ; d. 1607. His share in the Hampton Court Conference has been already mentioned. (21) Dr. Thomas Holland, Fellow of Balliol, 1573; Regius Professor of Divinity, 1589 ; Rector of Exeter Coll., 1592; d. 1612. (22) Dr. Richard Kilbye, Rector of Lincoln Coll., 1590 ; Prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral, 1601; Regius Professor of Hebrew, 1610; d. 1620. (23) Dr. Miles Smith, student of Corpus Christi Coll., about 1568, afterwards of Brasenose ; Canon of Exeter, 1595-9; Bishop of Gloucester, 1612-24; d. 1624. To him, along with Bishop Bilson, the final revision of the work was entrusted, and he wrote the Preface. (24) Dr. Richard Brett, Fellow of Lincoln Coll., 1586 3 Rector of Quainton, Bucks, 1595; d. 1637. Praised as an Orientalist. (25) Mr. Richard Fairclough, scholar of New Coll., 1570 3 incorporated at Cam- bridge, 1581; Rector of Bucknell, Oxon, 1592.
SHconD CAMBRIDGE COMPANY. (The Apocrypha).
(26) Dr. John Duport, Fellow of Jesus Coll., 1580; Master, 1590; Prebendary of Ely, 1609; d. 1617. (27) Dr. William Branthwait, Fellow of Emmanuel, 1584 ; deputy Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity; Master of Caius Coll., 1607; d. 1620, (28) Dr. Jeremiah Radcliffe, Fellow of Trin. Coll. (29) Dr. Samuel Ward, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, 1623; Master of Sidney Sussex Coll., 1610. Had previously been scholar of Christ’s and Fellow of Emmanuel. One of the English repre- sentatives at the Synod of Dort; d. 1643. (30) Mr. Andrew Downes, Fellow of St. John’s Coll., 1571; Regius Professor of Greek, 1585-1628; d. 1628. He corresponded in Greek with Casaubon. (31) Mr. John Bois, Fellow of St. John’s Coll., 1580; Greek Lecturer, 1584-95 ; Prebendary of Ely, 1615. When the Apocrypha was finished, he joined ‘the first Cambridge company at their urgent request. (32) Robert Ward, of King’s Coll., Prebendary of Chichester ; Rector of Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire.