John Rainolds
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John Rainolds (or Reynolds) (1549-1607) John Rainolds was president of Corpus Christi College at Oxford and Dean of Lincoln. He had been one of the four Puritans at the Hampton Court Conference. The few members of the Puritan party in the Church of England who were chosen as translators had been forced to conform to the 1604 canons made by Archbishop Bancroft in order to avoid persecution and the penalties for disobeying those canons. Thomas Fuller claimed that John Reynolds in his own practice "did willingly submit, constantly wearing hood and surplice, and kneeling at the sacrament" and that on his death-bed "he earnestly desired absolution."[1] John Rainolds is given the credit for suggesting the idea of the making of a new translation to King James I.
William Rainolds (1544?-1594), the older brother of John, had been one of the translators of the Roman Catholic Douay-Rheims Bible.
References
- 1. Church History of Britain, Vol. V, p. 380.
