William Reynolds (also Rainolds, Raynolds, Latin Reginaldus) (c.1544 at
Pinhorn near
Exeter
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In Roman Britain, Exeter was established as the base of Legio II Augusta under the personal comm ...
– 24 August 1594 at
Antwerp
Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504, ) was an English
Roman Catholic
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theologian and Biblical scholar.
Life
Educated at
Winchester School
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, he became fellow of
New College, Oxford
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(1560–1572). He was converted to Catholicism partly by the controversy between
John Jewel
John Jewel (''alias'' Jewell) (24 May 1522 – 23 September 1571) of Devon, England was Bishop of Salisbury from 1559 to 1571.
Life
He was the youngest son of John Jewel of Bowden in the parish of Berry Narbor in Devon, by his wife Alice Bell ...
and
Thomas Harding
Thomas Harding (born 1448 in Cambridge, Gloucestershire, England and died at Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England, May 1532) was a sixteenth-century English religious dissident who, while waiting to be burnt at the stake as a Lollard in 1532, wa ...
, and partly by the personal influence of
William Allen William Allen may refer to:
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.
In 1575 he made a public
recantation
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Philosophy
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in Rome, and two years later went to
Douai
Douai (, , ,; pcd, Doï; nl, Dowaai; formerly spelled Douay or Doway in English) is a city in the Nord département in northern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department. Located on the river Scarpe some from Lille and from Arras, D ...
to study for the priesthood. He removed with the other collegians from Douai to
Reims
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Founded by ...
in 1578 and was ordained priest at
Châlons in April, 1580. He then remained at the college, lecturing on Scripture and Hebrew, and helping
Gregory Martin in translating the ''
Reims Testament''.
Some years before his death he had left the college to become chaplain to the
Beguines
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at
Antwerp
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Works
He translated several of the writings of Allen and Harding into Latin and wrote a "Refutation" of
William Whitaker's attack on the Reims version (Paris, 1583); "De justa reipublicæ christianæ in reges impios et hæreticos authoritate" (Paris, 1590), under the name of Rossæus; a treatise on the Blessed Sacrament (Antwerp, 1593); "Calvino-Turcismus" (Antwerp, 1597).
Family
He was the second son of Richard Rainolds, and elder brother of
John Rainolds
John Rainolds (or Reynolds) (1549 – 21 May 1607) was an English academic and churchman, of Puritan views. He is remembered for his role in the Authorized Version of the Bible, a project of which he was initiator.
Life
He was born about Mi ...
, one of the chief
Anglican
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scholars engaged on the
King James Bible
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.
See also
References
;Attribution
* The entry cites:
**Kirby, Annals of Winchester College (London, 1892);
**Foster, Alumni Oxonienses (Oxford. 1891);
**Douay Diaries (London, 1878);
**
Anthony à Wood
Anthony Wood (17 December 1632 – 28 November 1695), who styled himself Anthony à Wood in his later writings, was an English antiquary. He was responsible for a celebrated ''Hist. and Antiq. of the Universitie of Oxon''.
Early life
Anthony W ...
, Athenae Oxonienses (London, 1813);
**
John Pitts, ''De illustribus Angliae scriptoribus'' (Paris, 1619);
**
Charles Dodd
Hugh Tootell (1671/72 – 27 February 1743) was an English Catholic historian. He is commonly known under his pseudonym Charles Dodd.
Life
Tootell was born in Lancashire. He was tutored by his uncle, Christopher Tootle, before studying with ...
, Church History, II (Brussels vere Wolverhampton, 1737–42);
**
Joseph Gillow
Joseph Gillow (5 October 1850, Preston, Lancashire – 17 March 1921, Westholme, Hale, Cheshire) was an English Roman Catholic antiquary, historian and bio-bibliographer, "the Plutarch of the English Catholics".
Biography
Born in Frenchwood Hous ...
, in ''Biographical Dictionary of English Catholics'', s. v.;
**
{{DEFAULTSORT:Reynolds, William
1544 births
1594 deaths
Converts to Roman Catholicism
Beguines and Beghards
Fellows of New College, Oxford
Clergy from Exeter
16th-century English Roman Catholic priests
16th-century English Roman Catholic theologians