Srconp Oxrorp Company. (Gospels, Acts, Revelation).
(33) Dr. Thomas Ravis, Dean of Christ Church, 1596-1605 ; Bishop of Gloucester, 1605; of London, 1607; d. 1609. (84) Dr. George Abbot, Master of University Coll., 1597; Dean of Win- chester, 1600; Archbishop of Canterbury, 1611-33; d. 1633. (35) Dr. Richard Edes, student of Christ Church, 1571; Dean of Worcester, 1597; d. 1604. As he died thus early, some have thought that Dr. James Montague, who succeeded him in the Deanery, was the ‘Mr. Dean of Worcester’ in Burnet’slist. Wood gives, in place of Edes, Dr. John Aglionby, who was Principal of St. Edmund Hall, 1601; d. 1610, (386) Dr. Giles Thompson,
*The Cambridge Calendar (unofficial) gives 1580. A touch- ing picture of the close of this great scholar’s life—inferior as a Hebraist to Pocock alone—is reproduced, from a contemporary funeral sermon, in Cooper's Athence Cantab.
matric. from University Coll., 1575; Fellow of All Souls’, 1580; Dean of Windsor, 1602: Bishop of Gloucester, 1611; d. 1612. (37) Sir Henry Savile, Warden of Merton Coll., 1585 ; Provost of Eton, 1596; editor of St. Chrysostom, 1610-13; founder of the Savilian Chairs of Geometry and Astronomy; d. 1622. (38) Dr. John Perrinne, or Perne, Fellow of St. John’s College, 1575 ; Regius Professor of Greek, 1597-1615; Canon of Christ Church, 1604-15; d. 1615. (39) ‘Dr. Ravens,’ assumed to be Dr. Ralph Ravens, Fellow of St. John’s Coll. ; Rector of Great Easton, Essex, 1605; d. 1616. In his stead Wood gives the name of Dr. Leonard Hutton, Canon of Christ Church. (40) Dr. John Harmar, Fellow of New College; Regius Professor of Greek, 1585-90 ; Head-Master of Winchester, 1588-95 ; Warden of Winchester, 1596-1613 ; d. 1613.
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(41) Dr. William Barlow, Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1590 ; Dean of Chester, 1602-5; Bishop of Lincoln, 1608-18 ; d. 1613. (42) ‘Dr. Hutchinson,’ taken to be Mr. William Hutchinson, of St. John’s Coll., Oxford; Archdeacon of St. Albans, 1581; Prebendary of St. Paul’s, 1589; d. 1616. (48) Dr. John Spenser, President of Corpus Christi Coll., Oxford, 1607- 14; Chaplain to James 1., and Fellow of Chelsea College ; d. 1614. (44) Dr. Roger Fenton, Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cam- bridge ; Preacher of Gray’s Inn, 1599 ; Prebendary of St. Paul's, 1609; d. 1616. (45) ‘Mr. Rabbet,’ identified with Michael Rabbet, B.A., of Trinity Coll., Cambridge, 1576 ; incorporated at Oxford, 1584; Rector of St. Vedast’s, 1604-17 ; d. 1630. (46) ‘Mr. Sanderson,’ identified in like manner with Thomas Sanderson, Fellow of Balliol, 1585; Archdeacon of Rochester, 1606-14 ; Canon of St. Paul’s, 1611; d. 16147. (47) Mr. William Dakins, Fellow of Trinity Coll., Cambridge, 1594 ; Professor of Divinity in Gresham Coll., 1604 ; d. 1607.
With such machinery prepared, the work went on apace. From an expression in the Translators’ Preface we may infer that their task took some- thing less than three years in completion. Con- trasting their own labours with those bestowed on the Septuagint version, finished, according to tradition, in seventy-two days, they say, ‘The work hath not been huddled up in seventy-two days, but hath cost the workmen, as light as it seemeth, the pains of twice seven times seventy- two days and more.’ Of the method of procedure we have an interesting glimpse left us by Selden.* ‘The Translation in King James’ time,’ he writes, ‘took an excellent way. That part of the Bible was given to him who was most excellent in such a tongue (as the Apocrypha to Andrew Downes), and then they met together, and one read the Translation, the rest holding in their hands some Bible, either of the learned Tongues, or French, Spanish, Italian, &c. : if they found any fault they spoke ; if not, he read on.’ “The final preparation for the press seems to have been entrusted to six delegates, two from each centre.}+ Dr. Downes and Bois are mentioned by name as of the party, and the time thus occupied is said to have been nine months.
At length, in 1611, the volume appeared from the press of Robert Barker, with this title: ‘The | Holy | Bible, | Conteyning the Old Testa- ment, | and the New: | Newly Translated out of the Originall | tongues, & with the former Trans- lations | diligently compared and reuised, by his | Maiesties speciall cOmandement. | Appointed to be read in Churches. | Imprinted at London by Robert
Barker, Printer to the Kings | most Excellent
aiestie. | Anno Dom. 1611.’ The title occupies the centre of a copperplate engraving, being flanked, right and left, by figures of Moses and Aaron, and having the four Evangelists at the corners. Above is the Paschal Lamb, surrounded by Apostles; and below is a pelican, symbol of piety. At the summit, in Hebrew characters, is the sacred name of God; on either hand the sun and moon; the Holy Dove beneath ; and at the bottom of the plate the artist’s signature, ‘C Boel fecit in Richmont.’
The NT has a separate title, within a woodcut
* Table Taik, ed. 1868, p. 20. We owe the ref. to Dr. Westcott,
t Life of John Bois, by Dr. A. Walker ; printed in Peck’s Desiderata cwriosa.
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border, representing, down one side, the tents and badges of the twelve tribes of Israel, and down the other the twelve Apostles. At the corner are the four evangelists with their emblems.