an English divine, and civil and canon lawyer, was dean of the arches, and chancellor of the diocese of Worcester from 1579 until. 1598. His works include An Answer to a Libel, entitled, An Abstract of Certain Acts of Parliament (1584): — Conspiracie for Pretended Reformation, viz. Presbyterial Discipline by Hacket, Coppinger, and Arthington (1592): — Apologie for Sundrie Proceedings by Jurisdiction Ecclesiasticall (1594): — Ecclesiae Anglicanae Patria in Tabulas Digesta (1604); and other works. See Fuller, Worthies of England; Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.