Elaboration: of religious ritual
Eliot, T.S.
Elizabeth I, Queen
death
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
England: late Elizabethan,
resistance to unity with other
countries, social order
English Catholics: Bible translation
plots by, return
from Continent, see also
Gunpowder Plot; Roman
Catholicism
English language
English Translation of the Epistles of
Paul the Apostle (MS no.98)
Englishness: in KJB
Epistle Dedicatory (KJB)
Erasmus, Desiderius
Essex, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of
Eton College
Europe: violence in
Executions
Exotic goods
Expenditure: royal household
Exton (Lincolnshire)
Extremists (religious)
Eyre, William
Fairclough (or Featley), Richard
Fawkes, Guy
Fenton, Roger
Fincham, Kenneth
Floods: as symbol
Fontenoy (French agent)
Food
Foxe, John: Book of Martyrs
Fuller, Thomas
Fulman, William
Galloway, Patrick
Gardens see Plants
Garnet, Henry
Genesis, Book of
Geneva Bible: Andrewes uses, on
God’s elect, James I’s attitude
to language style
marginal notes
on meaning of names
popularity, printing style
publication
rights Puritans’ preference
for, as
source for KJB, translated
by small team
Gettysburg address
Glass
Golf
Great Bible (1539)
Great Britain see also England
Greek language
Grindal, Edmund, Archbishop of
Canterbury
Gunpowder Plot (1605)
Gutenberg Bible
Hadleigh (Suffolk)
Hakluyt, Richard
Hampton Court Conference (1604)
Harding, John
Harington, Sir John
Harmar, John
Harrison, Thomas
Harvey, William
Harwood, Edward
Hatfield House (Hertfordshire)
Hely, Thomas
Henry IV, King
Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales
Herbert, George
Hermaphrodites
Hieron, Samuel
Hildersham, Arthur
Hinchinbrooke Abbey (Huntingdon)
Hinde, William
Hindlip House (Worcestershire)
Holland, Thomas
Holt, Mr and Miss (of Boxworth)
Holyrood House (Edinburgh)
Household (royal): expenditure
Howard, Henry see Northampton Ist
Earl of
Hudson, Henry
Hunting
Hutchinson, Ralph
Hutchinson, William
Hutten, Leonard
Hutton, Matthew
Immingham (Lincolnshire)
Incense
Inclusiveness
Individuality, see also Private
spirit
Innovation: hostility to
Inspiration
Integration
Ireland
Irenicon: new Bible as
James I, King (James VI of Scotland):
accession to English throne
appearance
arrival in London compared to
Solomon
conflict with Parliament early
life and Elizabeth I
and Epistle Dedicatory to KJB
first Parliament, at
Hampton Court Conference
influence on England
involvement in
translation process and
jointness, love of libraries
moderation, and money
motto
obsession with words
personality
and plague
portraits of and
Presbyterianism, and religious
debate taste for alcohol
Jerusalem Chamber
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
John Chrysostom, St see Chrysostom
St John
Joint endeavour
Jones, Inigo
Jonson, Ben
Masque of Blackness, Volpone
King, Geoffrey
King James Bible: in America
anonymity of Translators, as
Authorised Version and
Bishops’ Bible, blueprint for
born of optimism
clarity and richness
compared to
Tyndale’s version
conservatism early
indifference to Epistle
Dedicatory to, financing
of first printing
first suggested
frontispiece, instructions
for, intended to be read
aloud invisibility of
translation process, language
manuscript
musicality, polarities
confronted in, Preface
Puritan influence on
relevance to today see also
Translators
King, Martin Luther
Knewstubs, John
Knighthoods
Knox, John
Koine (form of Greek language)
Lambeth Palace Library
Language: authority of, loss of
religious, quality of in
KJB, richness of
use of original
see also Greek language;
Latin language
Latin language: as lingua franca
Laud, William, Archbishop of
Canterbury
Layfield, John
Legal process
Libraries, see
also Lambeth Palace Library
Licences: for ministers to preach
Light, of
understanding see also
Blackness; Darkness
Lightfoot, John
Literacy
Lively, Edward
London: conditions in
and food, gaols in, native
plants in, and plague
Luck
Luther, Martin
Luxury
Machiavelli, Niccolò
Majesty: idea of
see also Monarchy
Manningham, John
Manuscript number (Lambeth
Palace Library) see English
Translation of the Epistles of Paul the
Apostle
Marginal notes
Marriage
Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis)
Mary, Queen of Scots
Masque of Solomon and Queen of
Sheba
Mathematics
Matthew, Thomas (John Rogers):
Bible
Matthew, Tobias
Maypoles
Melville, Andrew
Merton College, Oxford
Middleton, Thomas
Mildmay, Sir Walter
Millenary Petition
Milton, John
Miraculous draught of fishes:
translations of
Misprints
Monarchy: authority
relationship to
church see also Majesty
More, Sir Thomas
Morton, Thomas, Bishop of Chester
(then of Lichfield and of Durham)
Mottoes
Mountagu (or Montagu), James
Bishop of Winchester
Muscovy Company
Music: and KJB
Mystery: in religion
Names: Biblical
Narrative skill
Nasmyth, James
Neville, Henry
Neville, Thomas
New English Bible,
Newark (Nottinghamshire)
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Newhouse (Ward’s tutor)
Northampton, Henry Howard Ist
Earl of
Numerology
Nunc Dimittis
Oldcorne, Father Edward
Orwell, Anne
Overall, John
Paine, Gustavus
Parker, Richard
Parliament
Paul, St, Epistles: I Corinthians
II Corinthians
Hebrews
Romans
Peerages
Pennywort
Peryn (or Pern), John
Peter, St
Peterborough, Bishop of see Dove
Thomas
Pickering, Lewis
Pilgrim Fathers
Plague
Plants and gardens
Polarities: confronted in KJB
Portraiture
Prayer Book see Book of Common
Prayer
Pre-destination
Preface (to KJB)
Presbyterianism: in Cambridge
excluded from Translators
and Hampton Court Conference
James I and, and
language of Bible translation
opposition to English bishops
Priests: qualifications
Printing
Private spirit, see also Ego;
Individuality
Privy Council
destruction of documents
and Separatists
Protestantism (English)
Prynne, William
Psalms: No. No.
Ptolemy: Almagest
Pullein, Thomas
Puns
Puritanism and Puritans: attitude to
the Cross, believe
Reformation unachieved in
England, and Biblical names
in conflict with bishops
destroy maypoles, and
Hampton Court Conference
and language of Bible
translation, meaning of terms
on plague, Thomas
Neville opposes, as Translators
welcome James I’s
accession see also Barrow
Henry; Separatists
Rabbet, Michael
Radcliffe, Jeremiah
Raleigh, Sir Walter
Ravens, Ralph
Ravis, Thomas
Reformation (English)
and language
Rembrandt van Rijn
Revised Version (1885)
Revising committee
payment of
Reynolds, John
at Hampton Court
Conference
Rhetoric
Rich, Sir Henry
Richardson, John
Rizzio, David
Robinson, Henry, Bishop of Carlisle
Roman Catholicism
see also English Catholics;
Jesuits
St Giles, Cripplegate
Salisbury, Robert Cecil Ist Earl of
see Cecil, Robert
Sancroft, William, Archbishop of
Canterbury
Sanderson, Thomas
Saravaia, Hadrian à
Savile, Sir Henry: appearance and
personality, Bois and
European tour life
and career, and St John
Chrysostom
subversive activities
Scapula, Joannes: Greek-Latin
lexicon
Schott, Andreas
Scientific enquiry
Scotland
Screws: as symbols
Scrivener, Frederick
Scrooby Separatists
Scroope, Philadelphia, Lady (nè 2e Carey)
Security: false sense of
Selby, John
Selden, John
Separatists: Andrewes opposes
Bancroft represses
on church
organisation emigrate
to America, emphasis on the
word, excluded from
Translators, flight and
persecution of, name
read Geneva Bible, services
as subversives, see
also Puritanism; Scrooby Separatists
Septuagint
Sexual language: translation of
Shakespeare, William King
Lear, Othello
The Tempest
Shrewsbury, Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl
of
Sidney, Sir Philip
Sidney, Robert
Simplicity
Smith, Miles, Bishop of Gloucester:
contributes summaries and running
heads to KJB, life and career
Preface to KJB
quotes from Geneva Bible
and translation of KJB
on virtuous man
Smyth, John
Social order
Society of Antiquaries
Solomon and Sheba see Masque of
Solomon and Queen of Sheba
Song of Songs, The
Spain, war with England
Sparke (or Sparkes), Thomas
Speed, John
Spencer, John
Spoken word
Stained glass
Stamford (Lincolnshire)
Stationers’ Hall, see also
Bois, John
Stationers’ Register
Studley, Daniel
Submission: and social order, of
the Translators
Suffolk, Thomas Howard, Ist Earl of
Supremacy (royal), see also
Authority; Monarchy
Surplice, the
Sussex: Puritanism in
Symbolism (religious)
see also Cross, the
Tacitus
Theobalds (Hertfordshire house)
Thirty Years War
Thomson, Richard
Tighe, Robert
Torture
Translation: of non-sacred texts
Translators (of KJB): achievement
anonymity of, chosen by
Bancroft, committee structure
instructions to
lack of payment to
procedure, Puritans
amongst, revision
committee
Tresham, Francis
Truth: and antiquity, derived
from scripture, Garnet on
withholding and light
Tyndale, William: aims for plain
style
influence on Translators of KJB
interpretations of word meanings
martyred, translates
Bible alone in exile
Ussher, James, Archbishop of
Armagh
Villiers, George see Buckingham Ist
Duke of
Walker, Anthony: biography of John
Bois
Walsingham, Sir Francis
Ward, Robert
Ward, Samuel
diary
Waters, Roger
Westminster Abbey
Whitchurch, Edward: Bible
Whitgift, John, Archbishop of
Canterbury: death, at Hampton
Court Conference
Wicked Bible
Widdowes, Giles
Willoughby, E.E.
Wilson, Thomas
Wood, Anthony à
Word, the: Andrewes’ devotion to
conflict with ceremony
as foundation, of God
Puritans and see also
Language
Wordsworth, William: ’On
Westminster Bridge’
Worksop (Nottinghamshire)
Wre
n, Sir Christopher
Wycliffe, John
York
About the Author
Adam Nicolson has been both a publisher and a travel writer, and is the author of many award-winning books, including Sea Room, about life on the Shiant Isles. He lives on a farm with his family near Burwash, England.
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Praise for God’s Secretaries
“The King James Bible is the greatest work ever written in English, period…The story of how it came into being has been told many times—told, that is, to such extent as it can be told…So few documents have survived this labor—apart, of course, from the translation itself—that piecing together the tale is at least as much a matter of intelligent guesswork as of hard research. This is what Adam Nicolson has done, and he has done it extraordinarily well. In fewer than 250 pages…God’s Secretaries places the King James Version in historical context, brings vividly to life many of those who worked on it…gives a plausible account of how the task was accomplished, and conveys in Nicolson’s own passionate prose the full grandeur of the translation.”
—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post
“How the King James Bible came about is the theme of Adam Nicolson’s fine book, God’s Secretaries. It is a popular book as popular books used to be, a breeze rather than a scholarly sweat, but humanely erudite, elegantly written, passionately felt…”
—James Wood, The New Yorker
“This scrupulously elegant account of the creation of what four centuries of history has confirmed is the finest English-language work of all time is entirely true to its subject: Adam Nicolson’s lapidary prose is masterly, his measured account both as readable as the curious demand and as dignified as the story deserves.”
—Simon Winchester, author of The Professor and the Madman
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—The Wall Street Journal
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—Christopher Hitchens, The New York Times Book Review
“Nicolson tells the King James Version’s story so well that God’s Secretaries may prove to be the King James Version’s indispensable companion for years to come.”
—Booklist, starred review
“God’s Secretaries is readily accessible to the informed reader. Its emphasis on background social influences makes the King James Version and its era come alive. Recommended for public libraries.”
—Library Journal
Credits
Jacket design by Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich
Jacket illustration: The Somerset House Conference, 1604, by courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London
Copyright
James I and VI: “Blessed is that Blesse you.” Copyright(c) The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Reprinted with permission.