About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: George Abbot, Lancelot Andrewes, John Overall, Daniel Featley, Thomas Bilson, Samuel Ward, Arthur Lake, Henry Savile, Hadrian a Saravia, William Thorne, Thomas Ravis, John Bois, Laurence Chaderton, Roger Fenton, John Rainolds, William Bedwell, Leonard Hutten, John Harmar, Thomas Harrison, Richard Brett, William Barlow, Richard Thomson, John Richardson, Richard Kilby, Richard Edes, Andrew Downes, William Dakins, Miles Smith, Ralph Ravens, Giles Thomson, Ralph Hutchinson, Thomas Holland, Roger Andrewes, John Spenser, John Perrin, John Harding, William Branthwaite, Richard Clarke, John Aglionby, Edward Lively, John Layfield, Francis Dillingham, Andrew Bing, John Duport, Geoffrey King, Robert Tighe, Francis Burleigh, Michael Rabbet, Jeremiah Radcliffe, Robert Ward, Robert Spaulding. Excerpt: John Overall (1559-1619) was the 38th bishop of the see of Norwich from 1618 until his death one year later. He had previously served as Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield (from 1614), as Dean of St Pauls Cathedral from 1601, as Master of Catharine Hall (under protest) from 1598, and as Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University from 1596. He also served on the Court of High Commission and as a Translator (in the First Westminster Company) of the King James Version of the Bible. Overall was born in Hadleigh, Suffolk and studied at St John's College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He is buried within Norwich Cathedral. John Overall was born in 1559, in Hadleigh, Suffolk. In Overall's time, Hadleigh was a center for radical Protestantism. He was baptised there on 2 March 1561, the younger son of George Overall, who died that July. The future bishop studied at Hadleigh Grammar School, where he was a fellow student with Bible translator John Bois. John Still, then Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambri...
