Leonard Hutten (1557?–1632) was an English clergyman and antiquary.
Life
Born about 1557, he was educated on the foundation at
Westminster School
(God Gives the Increase)
, established = Earliest records date from the 14th century, refounded in 1560
, type = Public school Independent day and boarding school
, religion = Church of England
, head_label = Hea ...
, and was elected to
Christ Church, Oxford, in 1574. He graduated B.A. on 12 November 1578, and M.A. on 3 March 1582, commenced B.D. on 27 April 1591. and was admitted D.D. on 14 April 1600. In January 1587 he was presented by his college to the vicarage of
Long Preston,
Yorkshire
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, which he held until December 1588. He was next instituted to the rectory of
Rampisham,
Dorset
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, on 10 October 1595, and ceded it in 1601. On 19 December 1599 he was made a prebendary of
Christ Church Cathedral, and on 6 June 1601 received the vicarage of
Flore,
Northamptonshire
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two unitary authorities: North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire. It is ...
, another college preferment, which he retained with his prebend until his death. He was also subdean of Christ Church.
He officiated at the opening of the
Bodleian Library in 1602, and on 24 September of that year became vicar of
Weedon Beck, Northamptonshire, a preferment which he resigned in 1604. He was appointed by
James I of England
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in 1604 one of the translators of the
King James Version
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; apparently this was to the Second Oxford Company, but the exact composition of that company is still the subject of debate. On 1 October 1609 he was installed a prebendary in
St. Paul's Cathedral. He died on 17 May 1632, aged 75, and was buried in the divinity (or Latin) chapel of Christ Church Cathedral. By his wife, Anne Hamden, he had a daughter Alice, married to
Richard Corbet, afterwards successively bishop of Oxford and Norwich.
Works
Hutten contributed to the collection of verses made by Christ Church when James I visited the college in 1605, and to other of the university collections. During the same year he published a learned work called ''An Answere to a certaine treatise of the Crosse in Baptisme intituled A Short Treatise of the Crosse in Baptisme'',Oxford, 1605, dedicated to
Richard Bancroft,
archbishop of Canterbury, whose chaplain he was. He left in manuscript an English dissertation on the ''Antiquities of Oxford'', which was printed in 1720 by
Thomas Hearne in his edition of the ''Textus Roffensis'' from a copy belonging to
Robert Plot
Robert Plot (13 December 1640 – 30 April 1696) was an English naturalist, first Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum.
Early life and education
Born in Borden, Kent to parents Robe ...
, and again in 1887 by
Charles Plummer
Charles Plummer, FBA (1851–1927) was an English historian and cleric, best known as the editor of Sir John Fortescue's ''The Governance of England'', and for coining the term "bastard feudalism". He was the fifth son of Matthew Plummer of St ...
in ''Elizabethan Oxford'' (Oxf. Hist. Soc.).
Hutten was the author of a play entitled ''Bellum Grammaticale'', based on
Andrea Guarna's 1512 work of the same name.
It was performed at Oxford before
Elizabeth I
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in 1592, and printed at London in 1635 and 1726.
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1557 births
1632 deaths
16th-century English Anglican priests
17th-century English Anglican priests
16th-century English dramatists and playwrights
Translators of the King James Version
People educated at Westminster School, London
17th-century English translators
Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
English antiquarians
16th-century antiquarians
17th-century antiquarians
17th-century Anglican theologians
16th-century Anglican theologians