[2] Bathurst's translation was edited first by Dr William Dillingham of Emmanuel College, and dedicated to Francis Lane.
It was republished by John Ball, who, in his address to the reader, says he had much and long labour in procuring a copy of Bathurst's work.
He speaks of Bathurst, in the address above mentioned, as ‘poeta non minus ornatus quam gravis idem postea theologus, qui has eclogas ita Latinè vertit ut obscuris lucem, asperis lævitatem, atque omnibus fere nitorem et elegantiam fœneraverit.
[2] He added a Latin dissertation, De vita Spenseri et scriptis (English: The Life and Writings of Spenser; Lond.
Emmanuel was at the forefront of the Puritan movement in intellectual circles, presenting the orthodox position on the doctrine of the trinity.