John Viccars

The elder son of Gregory Viccars of Treswell in Nottinghamshire, he was baptised there on 30 October 1604; his sister Helen was the wife of the dramatist William Sampson.

[2][3] In 1627 Viccars became vicar of St Mary's Church, Stamford; but in 1628 some of the congregation accused him of heresy.

[2] Viccars is mentioned in connection with Brian Walton's London Polyglot in 1652, but not subsequently.

[1] Viccars' major work is a multilingual psalm commentary, Decapla in Psalmos: sive Commentarius ex decem Linguis (London, 1639) in Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, Rabbinic, Chaldean, Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, and French.

[5] These works, which were previously attributed to the presbyterian poet and chronicler John Vicars, propagated Viccars' royalist, Laudian views in defence of liturgical tradition as the English Civil War began.

Frontispiece by Wenceslaus Hollar from the second edition (1655) of Decapla in Psalmos: sive Commentarius ex decem Linguis , by John Viccars