Important people
Important people:
Elizabethan preachers/theologians Matthew Parker (1504–75) Thomas Sampson (1517–89) Edmund
Grindal (c.1519–83) Laurence Humphrey (1527–90) John Whitgift (c.1530–1604) Peter Baro (1534–99) Richard Greenham (c.1535–c.1594) Thomas Cartwright (c.1535–1603)
John Field (1545–88) Walter Travers (c.1548–1635) John Reynolds (1549–1607) Henry
Barrow (c.1550–93) Robert Browne (1550–1633) Richard Hooker (1554– 1600) William Perkins (1558–1602) John Penry (1559–93)
Henry Smith (c. 1560–c.1591) John Greenwood (d.1593) Francis Johnson (1563–1618)
Jacobean preachers/theologians Henry Jacob (1536–1624) Richard Bancroft (1544–1610) Lancelot Andrewes (1555–1626) George Abbot (1562–1633) John Smyth (c.1570–1612) Paul Baynes (c.1573–1617) Thomas Helwys (c.1575–c.1616) John Robinson (1575–1625) Lewis Bayly (d.1631)
Royalty Elizabeth I (1558–1603) James I (1603–25) Henrietta Maria (1609–69) Charles I (1625–49)
Statesmen and generals Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (1532–88) Sir Francis Walsingham (1532–90) John Pym (1584–1643) Thomas Wentworth (1593–1641) Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658)
Preachers/theologians: Charles I and the English Revolution John Davenant (1572–1641) William Laud (1573–1645) Joseph Hall
(1574–1656) John Donne (1573–1631) Richard Sibbes (1577–1635) James Ussher (1581–1656) John Selden
(1584–1654) Nicholas Ferrar (1592–1637) George Herbert (1593–1633) Izaak Walton (1593–1683) John Cosin (1594–1672) Thomas Coleman (1598–1647) John Lightfoot (1602–75) Presbyterians
William Gouge (1578–1653) Cornelius Burges (or Burgess) (c.1589–1665) Stephen Marshall (c.1594–1655) Richard Vines (1600–56)
Obadiah Sedgwick (c.1600–58) Edmund Calamy (1600–66) Lazarus Seaman (d.1675) Richard Baxter (1615–91) Thomas Manton (1620–77)
Independents: Francis Rous (1579–1659) William Bradford (1590–1657) John Goodwin (1594–1665) Philip Nye (c.1595–1672) Hugh Peters (or Peter) (1598–1660) William Bridge (1600–70) Thomas Goodwin (1600–80)
Joseph Caryl (1602–73) Thomas Brooks (1608–80) Peter Sterry (1613–72) John Owen (1616–83) Baptists: John Spilsbury (c.1593–1668) Hanserd Knollys (c.1598–1691)
Henry Jessey (1601–63) John Tombes (c.1603–76) Roger Williams (c.1603–83) Henry Denne (c.1605–66)
Christopher Blackwood (c.1607–70)
Quakers:
James Nayler (1618–60) George Fox (1624–91) William Penn (1644–1718) Robert Barclay (1648–90)