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'John Prideaux' (1578-1650) was an English academic and bishop of Worcester.

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Life

Works

Notes

Life

Described as ''one of the most influential Calvinists inside the Church''^[1], he was Fellow and Rector of Exeter College, Oxford, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford^[2].
He held the living of Bladon from 1625^[3]. He was censured in 1631 for his tolerance of preachers in Oxford attacking William Laud^[4].

Works

Matthias Prideaux, a Royalist soldier, was his son, and predeceased him in 1646. John edited his work on history^[5].
He wrote a substantial academic treatise, ''Hypomnemata'', as well as theological works.

Notes

1. Hugh Trevor-Roper, ''Archbishop Laud'', p. 44.
2. ''Concise Dictionary of National Biography''
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4. Trevor-Roper, ''Laud'', p. 116.
5. Christopher Hill, ''The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution'' (1993), p. 29 footnote.