Francis Burleigh

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Translators of the King James Version of the Bible First Westminster Company, translating from Genesis to 2 Kings: Lancelot Andrewes (head) John Overall Hadrian à Saravia Richard Clarke John Layfield Robert Tighe Francis Burleigh Geoffrey King Richard Thomson William Bedwell First Cambridge Company, translated from 1 Chronicles to the Song of Solomon: Edward Lively (head) John Richardson Lawrence Chaderton Francis Dillingham Roger Andrewes Thomas Harrison Robert Spaulding Andrew Bing First Oxford Company, translated from Isaiah to Malachi: John Harding (head) John Reynolds Thomas Holland Richard Kilby Miles Smith (final editor) Richard Brett Daniel Fairclough William Thorne Daniel Featley William Thorne Second Oxford Company, translated the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, and the Book of Revelation: Thomas Ravis George Abbot Richard Eedes Giles Tomson Sir Henry Savile John Peryn Ralph Ravens John Harmar John Aglionby Leonard Hutten Second Westminster Company, translated the Epistles: William Barlow (head) John Spenser Thomas Bilson (final editor) Roger Fenton Ralph Hutchinson William Dakins Michael Rabbet Thomas Sanderson Second Cambridge Company, translated the Apocrypha: John Duport (head) William Branthwaite Jeremiah Radcliffe Samuel Ward Andrew Downes John Bois Robert Ward Thomas Bilson William Eyre Seventh Company, London, Richard Bancroft (overseer) others George Ryves (overseer of the New Testament)

Francis Burleigh, sometimes spelled Burghley, was an English Vicar, appointed in 1590 to Bishop's Stortford by Lancelot Andrewes. He was among Andrewes' "First Westminster Company", charged by James I of England with the translation of the first 12 books of the King James Version of the Bible.

References

McClure, Alexander. (1858) The Translators Revived: A Biographical Memoir of the Authors of the English Version of the Holy Bible. Mobile, Alabama: R. E. Publications (republished by the Marantha Bible Society, 1984 ASIN B0006YJPI8 )
Nicolson, Adam. (2003) God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible. New York: HarperCollins ISBN 0-06-095975-4

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