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Richard Bancroft
1610Nov, 2

Richard Bancroft

Richard Bancroft, English archbishop and academic (b. 1544)
Richard Bancroft (1544 – 2 November 1610) was an English churchman, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1604 to 1610 and "chief overseer" of the King James Bible.

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