Editing Lancelot Andrewes (section)

== Early life, education and ordination ==

Andrewes was born in 1555 near [[All Hallows-by-the-Tower|All Hallows, Barking]], by the [[Tower of London]], of an ancient [[Suffolk]] family later domiciled at Chichester Hall, at [[Rawreth]] in Essex; his father, Thomas, was master of [[Trinity House]]. Andrewes attended the [[Coopers' Company and Coborn School|Cooper's free school]] in [[Ratcliff]] in the parish of [[Stepney (parish)|Stepney]] and then the [[Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood|Merchant Taylors' School]] under [[Richard Mulcaster]]. In 1571 he entered [[Pembroke College, Cambridge|Pembroke Hall]], [[Cambridge]], and graduated with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree, proceeding to a [[Master of Arts (Oxbridge and Dublin)|Master of Arts]] degree in 1578.<ref>{{acad|id=ANDS571L|name=Andrews, Lancelot}}</ref> His academic reputation spread so quickly that on the foundation in 1571 of [[Jesus College, Oxford]] he was named in the charter as [[List of founding Fellows, Scholars and Commissioners of Jesus College, Oxford|one of the founding scholars]] "without his privity" (Isaacson, 1650); his connection with the college seems to have been purely notional, however.{{sfn|Allen|1998|pp=116-117}} In 1576 he was elected fellow of Pembroke College; on 11 June 1580 he was [[holy orders|ordained]] a priest by [[William Chaderton]], [[Bishop of Chester]],<ref name="cced">{{CCEd |type=person |id=21583 |name=Andrewes, Lancelot |yob=1580 |yod=1609 |accessed=1 February 2014 }}</ref> and in 1581 was incorporated [[Master of Arts (Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin)|Master of Arts]] (MA) at Oxford. As catechist at his college he read lectures on the [[Ten Commandments|Decalogue]] (published in 1630), which aroused great interest.

Once a year he would spend a month with his parents and, during this vacation, he would find a master from whom he would learn a language of which he had no previous knowledge. In this way, after a few years, he acquired most of the modern languages of Europe.{{sfn|M'Clure|1853|p=78}}

Andrewes was the elder brother of the scholar and cleric [[Roger Andrewes]], who also served as a translator for the [[King James Version]] of the Bible.