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King James asked Bishop Richard Bancroft (above) to oversee six companies of translators at three locations. They worked on unbound pages from the 1602 revision of the Bishops' Bible. Bancroft wrote 15 general rules to guide them. After translators of each company completed their assignment, they passed it on to the next company, so that all companies reviewed the entire Bible. This process took four years.
Location | Westminster | Cambridge | Oxford | |||
Director | Lancelot Andrewes | William Barlow | Edward Lively | John Duport | John Harding | Thomas Ravis |
Section | Genesis–2 Kings | Romans–Jude | 1 Chronicles– Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon | Apocrypha | Isaiah–Malachi | The Gospels, Acts, Revelation |