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| | John Overall |
 | | Overall was prolocutor, or speaker, of the lower house of Convocation. |
 | | Its object was to vindicate the divine right of government....Dr. Overall was the author of the questions and answers relating to the sacraments, which have been much admired, by the ablest judges of such matters, and which were subjoined to the Catechism of the Church of England, in the first year of James the First. |
 | | John Overall, who "carried superintendency in his surname," was made Bishop of Litchfield and Coventry, in 1614. |
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