God's Secretaries_The Making of the King James Bible

by Adam Nicolson

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  Index

  Note: The King James Bible has, in places, been abbreviated to KJB.

  Abbot, George, Archbishop of

  Canterbury: appearance

  attacks ‘Americans’

  attempts to convert Garnet

  and Book of Jonah

  brutality eloquence

  guide to the world and

  James I prose style

  upbringing and career

  Abbot, Robert

  Aesthetics

  Aglionby, Johm

  Allen, Ward

  America: Abbot criticises

  choice of Bibles innative

  peoples Puritans in

  speeches in, see also

  Pilgrim Fathers

  Andrewes, Lancelot, Bishop of

  Winchester: appearance

  background and career

  and ceremony chapel

  Christmas sermons

  death, as director

  of Company of Translators

  and financing

  of translation of KJB and

  Gunpowder Plot and

  Hampton Court Conference

  and John Bois

  and Lady Essex divorce case

  personality and principles

  prayers and Separatists

  and Society of Antiquaries

  Andrewes, Nicholas

  Andrewes, Roger

  Anne of Denmark, Queen of James I

  Antiquity: attraction of

  Apocrypha

  Archetypes

  Aston, Sir Roger

  Astrology

  Aubrey, John

  Augustine, St

  Authenticity

  Authority: divine in Elizabethan

  England, in Jacobean

  England, on

  language royal

  Authorship

  Bacon, Francis, Viscount St Albans

  Bancroft, Richard, Archbishop of

  Canterbury: and Cambridge

  Presbyterianism draws up

  Church rules at Hampton

  Court Conference

  hostility to Puritans and

  Separatists

  and Lancelot

  Bancroft, Richard

  Andrewes, letter of instruction

  to Translators

  succeeds Whitgift as Archbishop

  supports translation of KJB

  Baptism, adult

  Barker, Robert

  Barlow, William

  Baroque: elements in KJB

  Barrow, Henry

  Beauty: in Jacobean England

  Bedwell, William

  Bellarmine, Cardinal Roberto

  Berwick-on-Tweed

  Beza, Theodore

  Bible: of Reformation

  translations compared, as

  word of God see also

  Bishops’ Bible; Geneva Bible

  Tyndale, William

  Bilson, Thomas, Bishop of

  Winchester

  Bin Laden, Osama

  Bing, Andrew

  Bishops: in conflict with Puritans

  and Hampton

  Court Conference

  vestments

  Bishops’ Bible

  annotated copy

  Blackness: as vice, see also

  Darkness

  Bodleian Library, Oxford

  Boel, Cornnelius

  Bois, John: background and character

  children’s deaths

  death, education

  lifestyle, and money

  notes on revising

  committee and

  Savile, translates

  Chrysostom, as Translator of

  KJB, virtues

  Bois, Mirabel

  Bois, William

  Bonnest, Arthur

  Book of Common Prayer

  Boston (Lincolnshire)

  Bothwell, James Hepburn th Earl

  of

  Bound, Nicholas

  Bowing: to name of Jesus

  Boxworth (Cambridgeshire)

  Bradford, William

  Bradlaugh, Charles

  Brahe, Tycho

  Branthwaite, William

  Brett, Richard

  Brewster, William

  Britain’s Burse (Strand, London)

  Broughton, Hugh

  Browne, Thomas

  Bruen, John

  Bruno, Giordano

  Bucer, Martin

  Buchanan, George

  Buckeridge, John, Bishop of

  Rochester and Ely

  Buckingham, George Villiers, Ist

  Duke of

  Bunyan, John

  Burghley, Thomas Cecil, 2nd Baron

  Burghley, William Cecil, Ist Baron

  Bu
rleigh, Francis

  Calvin, John

  The Institutes of Christian Religion

  Calvinism and the Geneva

  Bible see also

  Puritanism

  Carew, George, Baron

  Carey, Sir Robert

  Catholics see English Catholics;

  Roman Catholicism

  Cecil, Robert ( later Ist Earl of

  Salisbury): and Britain’s Burse

  and Carey and

  Gunpowder Plot and

  Hampton Court Conference

  and Hatfield House

  interest in

  numerology, Jonson writes

  masque for, London garden

  as Lord Treasurer and

  love, peerage promotes

  Andrewes, rivalry with Raleigh

  and Savile

  Secretaryship, serves James I

  Spanish pension, and

  Theobalds

  wealth

  Ceremonial

  see also Symbolism

  Chaderton, Laurence

  and Hampton Court

  Conference

  Charles I, King

  Child mortality

  Chiswick

  Christian IV, King of Denmark and

  Norway

  Chrysostom, St John

  Church: government, internal

  conflicts and state

  Cicero

  Circumlocution

  Civil War (English)

  Civility: in Jacobean England

  Clapham, Henoch

  Clarke, Richard

  Class (social), see also Social order

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

  Commentary (Biblical)

  Communion

  Company: concept of

  Confirmation

  Conflict: between word and

  ceremony, within

  church

  Continuity: of translation

  Corruption

  Cosin, John, Bishop of Durham

  Cotgrave, Randle: French-English

  dictionary

  Coverdale, Miles: Bible translation

  Cranmer, Thomas

  Cromwell, Sir Oliver

  Cross, the see also

  Symbolism

  Cuffe, Henry

  Culture: in Jacobean England

  Cumberland, George Clifford, 3rd

  Earl of

  Custodis, Hieronimo

  Dakins, William

  Darkness, see also Blackness;

  Light

  Darnley, Henry Stewart, Earl of

  Deans

  Dekker, Thomas

  Dillingham, Francis

  Dodd, C.H.

  Donne, John

  Dorset, Robert Sackville, 2nd Earl of

  Dove, Thomas, Bishop of

  Peterborough

  Downes, Andrew

  Drunkenness

  Duc, Fronton du

  Duport, John