John Whitgift

[chuckles] You know, e-everybody wants to be able to claim Tyndale as an authority because he is this luminary, you know? Um, so it's, it's actually, I mean, i-incredibly interesting.

Um, uh, you know, Tyndale is not a Presbyterian, but Thomas Cartwright, when he is having his disputes with John Whitgift about Presbyterianism in the fifteen seventies, digs up lines from Tyndale's writing, where he talks about how there was no original difference between bishop and priest, and he says, "Ah, Tyndale.

Tyndale knew the truth.

Tyndale knew the truth." And you then find a ton of Presbyterian pamphleteers who will just bang on again and again and again, citing the works of Tyndale.

Mine generally involves a railway ticket.

And one of those archbishops left a particularly deep footprint in Croydon, John Whitgift.

If you know Croydon at all, you'll probably have encountered the name, but behind the name is something much older and more interesting than a shopping trip.

In 1596, Whitgift laid the first two foundation stones of the Hospital of the Holy Trinity, the almshouses.