(William), a learned and eminent divine of the church of England, in the 16th century. He was patronised by the earl of Leicester, who in 1571 presented him to the living of Warley in Essex, and soon after to that of Diddington in Suffolk. He attended Leicester, when he went ambassador to France; and on his return was made master of Pembroke-hall, and Margaret professor of divinity at Cambridge. His works are very numerous, levelled chiefly at the Papists; the most considerable of them is his Comment on the Rhenish Testament. He died in 1589.