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3 unusual facts about John Chamberlayne


John Chamberlayne

In the preface to a part of this published in 1719 he relates that Fagel assured Bishop Burnet "that it was worth his while to learn Dutch, only for the pleasure of reading Brandt's History of the Reformation".

He translated for this body Osterwald's Arguments of the Book and Chapters of the Old and New Testament, 3 vols.

Chamberlayne's most important work was his translation of Brandt's History of the Reformation in the Low Countries, 4 vols.



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