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GODWIN, FRANCIS (1562-1633)

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 176 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GOA-GRA
GODWIN, FRANCIS (1562-1633) , English divine, son of
Thomas
  Godwin, bishop of Bath and Wells, was born at Hannington,
Northamptonshire
 , in 1562. He was elected student of Christ Church, Oxford, in 1578, took his bachelor's degree in 158o, and that of master in 1583. After holding two Somerset-shire livings he was in 1587 appointed subdean of
Exeter
 . In 1590 he accompanied William Camden on an antiquarian tour through Wales. He was created bachelor of divinity in 1593, and
doctor
  in 1595. In 16o, he published his Catalogue of the Bishops of England since the first planting of the Christian. Religion in this
Island
 , a
work
  which procured him in the same year the bishopric of
Llandaff
 . A second edition appeared in 1615, and in 1616 he published an edition in Latin with a dedication to King James, who in the following year conferred upon him the bishopric of
Hereford
 . The
work
  was republished, with a continuation by William Richardson, in 1743. In 1616 Godwin published Rerum Anglicarum, Henrico VIII., Edwardo VI. et Maria regnantibus, Annales, which was afterwards translated and published by his son
Morgan
  under the title Annales of England (1630). He is also the author of a somewhat remarkable story, published posthumously in 1638, and. entitled The Man in the Moone, or a Discourse of a Voyage thither, by Domingo Gonsales, written apparently some time between the years 1599 and 1603. In this production Godwin not only declares himself a believer in the Copernican system, but adopts so far the principles of the law of gravitation as to suppose that the earth's attraction diminishes with the distance. The work, which displays considerable fancy and wit, was translated into French, and was imitated in several important particulars by Cyrano de Bergerac, from whom (if not from Godwin direct) Swift obtained valuable hints in writing of Gulliver's voyage to Laputa. Another work of Godwin's, Nuncius inanimatus Utopiae, originally published in 1629 and again in 1657, seems to have been the prototype of John Wilkins's Mercury, or the
Secret
  and Swift Messenger, which appeared in 1641. He died, after a lingering illness, in April 1633.


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