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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 46. Chapters: Myles Coverdale, Leofric, Frederick Temple, Henry Phillpotts, Joseph Hall, William Warelwast, Hugh Oldham, Bishop of Exeter, Ofspring Blackall, Richard Foxe, Bartholomew Iscanus, George Neville, Herbert Edward Ryle, Lord William Cecil, Walter Branscombe, John Gauden, John Fisher, William Briwere, George Lavington, Lancelot Blackburne, Osbern FitzOsbern, Robert Warelwast, Simon of Apulia, Sir Jonathan Trelawny, 3rd Baronet, Edmund Stafford, Seth Ward, Michael Langrish, William Alley, Edmund Lacey, Frederick Keppel, Henry Marshal, Peter Quinel, John Woolton, Peter Courtenay, Walter de Stapledon, Ralph Brownrigg, William Bradbridge, John Ross, John Vesey, Oliver King, Richard Blund, AElfwold II, Thomas Bitton, John Grandisson, Edward Bickersteth, Robert of Chichester, John Booth, Thomas Lamplugh, Thomas de Brantingham, Anthony Sparrow, William Carey, Valentine Cary, John the Chanter, Robert Mortimer, Richard Redman, Henry Reginald Courtenay, William Buller, John Catterick, John Arundel, Sideman, James Turberville, Eric Mercer, Hewlett Thompson, Nicholas Clagett, Gervase Babington, Archibald Robertson, George Pelham, James Berkeley, William Cotton, AElfwold III, Eadwulf of Crediton, AElfric of Crediton, Eadnoth of Crediton, AEthelgar, John Godeley, Stephen Weston, John Hales, James Cary, Exoniensis. Excerpt: Joseph Hall (1 July 1574 - 8 September 1656) was an English bishop, satirist and moralist. His contemporaries knew him as a devotional writer, and a high-profile controversialist of the early 1640s. In church politics, he tended in fact to a middle way. Thomas Fuller wrote: "He was commonly called our English Seneca, for the purenesse, plainnesse, and fulnesse of his style. Not unhappy at Controversies, more happy at Comments, very good in his Characters, better in his Sermons, best of all in his Meditations."His relat