John Still

Not to be confused with John Still (author).

John Still (c. 1543 – 26 February 1607/1608) was Master of two Cambridge colleges and then, from 1593, Bishop of Bath and Wells. He enjoyed considerable fame as an English preacher and disputant. He was formerly reputed to be the author of an early English comedy, Gammer Gurton's Needle.

Quotes about Still

• Memoræ sacrum
  Joanni Still Episcopo Bathoniensi et Wellensi, Sacræ
  Theologia Doctori Acerrimo Christianæ Veritatis
  propugnatori non nienus vitæ integritate quam veria
  Doctrina claro qui cum Domino Diu vigilasset in
  Christo spe certa resurgendi obdormivit die XXVI.
  Februarii mdcvii.
  Vixit annos LXIIII sedit episcopus XVI.
  Nathaniel Still filius primogenitus optimo patri
  Mœrens pietatis ergo posuit.
  • Sacred to the memory of John Still, Bishop of Bath and Wells, Doctor of Theology, keenest warrior for Christian Virtue famed no less in integrity of life than for True Doctrine, who, when he had long kept vigil with the Lord, went to sleep in Christ on the 26th day of February 1607 in the certain hope of rising again. He lived for 64 years, sat as Bishop for 16. Nathaniel Still first-born son mourning the best father thus placed it of piety.
  • Latin inscription on his tomb in Wells Cathedral, in Arthur J. Jewers, Wells Cathedral: Its Monumental Inscriptions and Heraldry (London: Mitchell and Hughes, 1892), p. 146

See also

• Gammer Gurton's Needle (1575), under Anonymous#16th century

External links

• Encyclopedic article on John Still on Wikipedia