Pearson, John, English prelate, born in Norfolk; held a succession of preferments in the Church, and in the end the bishopric of Chester, author of a very learned work “Exposition of the Creed,” of which Bentley said, “its very dross is gold” (1612‒1686).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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