[147] STRYPE, _Life of Parker_, b. iv. c. 20; JOHNSON, _Historical Account_, p. 87; BURNET, _History of the Reformation_, part ii. book iii. p. 406, ed. 1681. [148] The Psalms were in the first instance assigned to Guest, Bishop of Rochester. It is probable that the Archbishop was dissatisfied with Guest’s work, and on good grounds, for he despatched it very quickly, and forwarded it to the Archbishop with a letter, in which he thus sets forth his estimate of his duty as a translator: “I have not altered the Translation but where it giveth occasion of an error. As in the first Psalm, at the beginning I turn the preterperfect tense into the present tense; because the tense is too hard in the preterperfect tense. Where in the New Testament one piece of a Psalm is reported, I translate it in the Psalm according to the translation thereof in the New Testament, for the avoiding of the offence that may rise to the people upon diverse translations.” (STRYPE, _Life of Parker_, b. iii. c. 6; _Parker Correspondence_, PARKER, sec. ed. p. 250.) [149] _Parker Correspondence_, PARKER, sec. ed. p. 335. [150] _Hist. of Ref._, part ii. book iii. p. 406, ed. 1681. [151] _Collection of Records_, part ii. book iii. number 10. [152] Probably a misprint for Harmer. [153] CARDWELL, _Documentary Annals_, vol. ii. p. 110. [154] Barlow was present at the Hampton Court Conference in January, 1601, and all accounts describe him as then Dean of Chester; and his narrative of the Conference, published in 1604, is described as “contracted by William Barlow, Doctor of Divinity, and Dean of Chester.” Sir Peter Leycester, _Hist. Antiq. of Cheshire_, p. 169, states that Barlow was appointed Dean in 1603. [155] Bishop of Chichester, November 3rd, 1605; Bishop of Ely, 1609; Bishop of Winchester, 1619. [156] Bishop of Lichfield, April, 1614; Bishop of Norwich, 1618. [157] Subsequently Regius Professor of Hebrew, Cambridge. [158] Lively died May, 1605, and hence could not have taken any active part in the Revision. [159] Afterwards D.D., and successively Master of Peterhouse and of Trinity College. [160] Succeeded Dr. Duport in the Mastership of Jesus College, Cambridge. [161] Succeeded Mr. Lively as Regius Professor of Hebrew. [162] Afterwards Rector of Exeter College, Oxford. [163] Afterwards Bishop of Gloucester. [164] Master of Sidney College, January, 1609; Archdeacon of Taunton, 1615; Vice-Chancellor, Cambridge, 1620; Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, 1621. [165] Afterwards D.D., Prebendary of Chichester, and Rector of Bishop’s Waltham, Hants. [166] Bishop of Gloucester, March 19th, 1605; Bishop of London, May 18th, 1607. [167] Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, 1609; Bishop of London, 1610. [168] Died November, 1604, and hence could have taken no part in the work of the Company. His name is not mentioned by Wood in the list given in _Hist. et Antiq. Univ. Oxon._, i. p. 311, ed. 1674. [169] Knighted at Windsor, September 21st, 1604.