Richard Bancroft was an English churchman, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1604 to 1610 and "chief overseer" of the King James Bible.
John Whitgift was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1583 to his death. Noted for his hospitality, he was somewhat ostentatious in his habits, sometimes visiting Canterbury and other towns attended by a retinue of 800 horses. Whitgift's theological views were often controversial.
William Salesbury also Salusbury was the leading Welsh scholar of the Renaissance and the principal translator of the 1567 Welsh New Testament.
William Morgan was Bishop of Llandaff and of St Asaph, and the translator of the first version of the whole Bible into Welsh from Greek and Hebrew.
Sir Julius Caesar was an English lawyer, judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1589 and 1622. He was also known as Julius Adelmare.
Henry Woodlock was a Roman Catholic Bishop of Winchester. He is sometimes referred to as Henry de Merewell, from the place of his birth, a manor near Winchester belonging to the bishop.
Thomas Bilson was an Anglican Bishop of Worcester and Bishop of Winchester. With Miles Smith, he oversaw the final edit and printing of the King James Bible.
George Lloyd was born in Wales, and became Bishop of Sodor and Man, then Bishop of Chester. He is remembered for Bishop Lloyd's House in Chester, which he had built in the years before his death, and which is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.
Hugh Bellot was an English prelate during the Tudor period, who served as bishop of Bangor and then bishop of Chester.
William Day was an English clergyman, Provost of Eton College for many years, and at the end of his life Bishop of Winchester.
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1721 to Wales and its people.
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1716 to Wales and its people.
Shelley is a partly rural village and partly residential conurbation in the Ongar civil parish of the Epping Forest district of Essex, England.
John Udall (1560?–1592) was an English clergyman of Puritan views, closely associated with the publication of the Martin Marprelate tracts, and prosecuted for controversial works of a similar polemical nature. He has been called "one of the most fluent and learned of puritan controversialists".
Benjamin Heydon or Haydon (1567-1607) was the Headmaster at Winchester College from 1596 to 1601/1602, a JP for Somerset, and Dean of Wells Cathedral from 1602 until his death in 1607.
Adam Squire or Squier was an English churchman and academic, Master of Balliol College, Oxford, from 1571 to 1580, and Archdeacon of Middlesex from 1577.
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1724 to Wales and its people.
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1722 to Wales and its people.
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1718 to Wales and its people.
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1717 to Wales and its people.
