31. WILLIAM BEDWELL

To this section of those learned divines, was assigned from the beginning of Chronicles to the end of "The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's." The eight men to whom this important part of the work was assigned, were no whit behind their associates, in fitness for their great undertaking.

EDWARD LIVELY.

He is commemorated as "one of the best linguists in the world." He was a student, and afterwards a fellow, of Trinity College, Cambridge, and King's Professor of Hebrew. He was actively employed in the preliminary arrangements for the Translation, and appears to have stood high in the confidence of the King. Much dependence was placed on his surpassing skill in the oriental tongues. But his death, which took place in May, 1605, disappointed all such expectations; and is said to have considerably retarded the commencement of the work. Some say that his death was hastened by his too close attention to the necessary preliminaries.