John Still

[4] Still was appointed in 1570 to be Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity, and later held livings in Suffolk, where he was Archdeacon of Sudbury from 1576 to 1593, and in Yorkshire.

John Still was married twice: Wells Cathedral has a large canopied tomb with a recumbent effigy of the Bishop, situated against the east wall of the chapel between the north aisle and the Chapter House.

It bears a Latin inscription:[10] Memoriae sacrum Joanni Still Episcopo Bathoniensi et Wellensi, Sacras Theologia Doctori Acerrimo Christianae Veritatis propugnatori non minus vitas 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 maerens 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.

Not that he needeth monuments of stone for his well-gotten fame to rest uppon but this was reard to testifie that hee lives in theire loves ye yet surviving for unto vertu who first raised his name hee left the preservation of the same and to posterity remaine it shall when brass and marble monuments shall fall"Gammer Gurton's Needle is the second earliest extant English comedy, properly so called.

[11] Still, whose reputation as a serious churchman cannot easily be reconciled with the buffoonery in A Ryght Pithy, Pleasaunt and merie Comedie: Intytuled Gammer Gurtons Nedle, was first credited with its authorship by Isaac Reed in his 1782 edition of Biographia dramatica.

Though less overt in its use of Latin comedic conventions than its contemporary Ralph Roister Doister, several scholars have noted the play's parodic treatment of Terentian comedy.

This is eventually found when her servant, Hodge, is slapped on the buttocks by the trickster Diccon and discovers it in the seat of his breeches.

Arms of Still: Sable gutté d'eau argent, 3 roses of the last seeded or barbed vert . These arms were granted by Sir William Dethick , Garter King of Arms , on 10 April 1593, on his elevation to the bishopric. [ 5 ] The thorns of the roses in the arms, here depicted above the Bishop's tomb in Wells Cathedral, are painted not " vert " (green) but " or " (gold). Jewers noted in his 19th-century book that the monument had been newly painted [ 6 ]
Bishop John Still by Silvester Harding , painted 1760–1809, possibly copied from a now lost contemporary portrait (British Museum Gg 1.425)
Monumental brass of Ann Alabaster (died 1592), first wife of John Still and daughter of Thomas Alabaster (died 1592), cloth merchant of Hadleigh (St Mary's Church, Hadleigh, Suffolk)
Monument to Bishop John Still in Wells Cathedral
Etched stone mural monument to Nathaniel Still (d. 1626) in Hutton Church, Somerset