Sir John Cheke
1514 - 1557
Engraving by James Fittler from

THE
L I F E
OF
THE LEARNED

SIR JOHN CHEKE, KT.
FIRST INSTRUCTOR, AFTERWARDS SECRETARY OF STATE,
TO
KING EDWARD VI.
ONE OF THE GREAT RESTORERS OF GOOD LEARNING AND
TRUE RELIGION IN THIS KINGDOM.

A Work wherein many remarkable Points of History, relating to the State of
Learning and Religion in the Times of King Henry VIII. King
Edward VI. and Queen Mary I. are brought to light.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,
A TREATISE OF SUPERSTITION,
Writ by the said learned Knight.