Editing Myles Coverdale (section)

== Bishop of Exeter, 1551==
Coverdale spent Easter 1551 in Oxford with the Florentine-born Augustinian reformer [[Peter Martyr Vermigli]]. At that time, Martyr was Regius Professor of divinity, belonging to [[Magdalen College]].<ref name="OUPBibleEng" />{{rp|1267}} He had been assisting Cranmer with a revision of the Anglican prayer book.<ref name="ONDB"/> Coverdale attended Martyr's lectures on the Epistle to the Romans and Martyr called him a "a good man who in former years acted as parish minister in Germany" who now "labours greatly in Devon in preaching and explaining the Scriptures". He predicted that Coverdale would become [[Bishop of Exeter]] and this took place on 14 August 1551 when [[John Vesey]] was ejected from his see.<ref name="ONDB"/>