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John Still was the only son of William Still, Esq., of Grantham, in Lincolnshire, and was born in or about 1543. In 1559 he matriculated as a pensioner in Christ's College, Cambridge, and his record, according to The National Dic tionary of Biography, supplemented by \v. C. Hazlitt in Dodsley's Old Plays, appears to have been as follows - b.a. In 1561 - 2; m.a. In 1565; D.D., 1575; Fellow, 1562; presented to the rectory of St. Martin Outwich, London, in 1570; collated by Archbishop Parker to the rectory of Hadleigh, in Suffolk, 1571; and ap pointed, with Dr. Watts, by the primate to whom he was chaplain, joint-dean of Bocking, 1572. From the deanery of Bocking he rose to the canonry at Westminster, the mastership of St. John's College, Cambridge, the vice chancellorship of the university on two occa sions, the mastership of Trinity College, Cam bridge, and finally, the bishopric of Bath and \vells, to which last dignity he was named 1592 - 3. He died at the episcopal palace at Wells, 1607 - 8, and was buried, on the 4th April following, in the cathedral, where a handsome monument was erected to his memory. He was twice married, and left behind him several children.
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