English prelate, born in Winchester and educated at the school of that place. He was admitted, in 1565, perpetual fellow of New College, Oxford, and became prebendary of Winchester in 1576, bishop of Worcester in 1596, and was translated to Winchester the following year. In 1585 he published The True Difference between Christian Subjection and Unchristian Rebellion, a work directed against the Catholics and meant as a vindication of the interference of Queen Elizabeth in favor of the Protestants of the Low Countries. This he followed in 1593 with The Perpetual Government of Christ’s Church, which is considered a masterly argument in favor of Episcopacy. In 1604 appeared his Survey of Christ’s Sufferings for Man’s Redemption and of His Descent to Hell for Our Deliverance, which was a reply to a criticism of a former published series of sermons by himself. To him was intrusted, by King James I., the care of putting the last touches to the authorized version of the Bible, in which work he was assisted by Dr. Miles Smith, afterward bishop of Gloucester. He died in London on the 18th of June 1616.
