ABSTRACT
The dean of Westminster from 1620 to 1644, who combined that office with the bishopric of Lincoln from 1621 to 1641 and then with the archbishopric of York, and who also headed the national administra tion as lord keeper of the great seal from 1621 to 1625, has never lacked epithets. He has not, however, found a substantial biographer since his friend and disciple John Hacket wrote the account of him on which much subsequent study (including some of what follows) is based.2
