Stephen Batman

Stephen or Stephan Batman (also Bateman ; * in Bruton , Somerset ; † 1584 ) was an English cleric, translator and writer.

Life

Batman was born and educated in Bruton, Somerset. He then went to Cambridge , where he had a good reputation as a scholar and preacher. It is believed that he was also the "Bateman" who received the title LL.B. in 1534. ( Bachelor of Laws ) and was a priest and sixth year student at the time.

Archbishop Matthew Parker later hired Batman as his local chaplain and commissioned him to build the library that is now housed in Corpus Christi College . Batman claimed he gathered 6,700 books for the Archbishop, which is possibly an exaggeration.

In 1573 Batman became the principal of the school in Merstham , Surrey . Batman also served as a Doctor of Divinity and pastor. In 1582 he became the local chaplain of Baron Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon (1526–1596). Batman also resided in Leeds , Kent for a while .

Works

Spine from The Doome warning all men to the Judgments , 1581

• Christiall Glass for Christian Reformation, treating on the 7 deadly Sinns (London 1569).
• Travayled Pilgreme, bringing Newes from all Parts of the Worlde, such like scarce harde before (London 1569).
• Joyfull Newes out of Helvetia, from Theophr. Paracelsum, declaring the ruinate fall of the papal dignitie: also a treatise against Usury (London 1575).
• The golden booke of the leaden goddes, wherein is described the vayne imaginations of heathen Pagans and counterfaict Christians: wyth a description of their several tables, what ech of their pictures signified (London 1577).
• Preface to John Rogers' Displaying of an horrible Secte of große and wicked Heretiques naming themselves the Family of Love (1579).
• The Doome warning all men to the Judgment: Wherein are contayned for the most parte all the straunge Prodigies hapned in the Worlde, with divers secrete figures of Revelations tending to mannes stayed conversion towardes God: In maner of a general Chronicle, gathered out of sundrie approved authors (London 1581).
• Batman uppon Bartholome , His Booke De Proprietatibus Rerum; newly corrected, enlarged, & amended, with such Additions as are requisite, unto every severall Booke. Taken for the most approved authors, the like heretofore not translated into English. Profitable for all Estates, as well for the benefite of the Mind as the Bodie (London 1582).
• Notes upon Richard Robinson's' Auncient Order, Societie, and Unitie Laudable, of Prince Arthure and his knightly Armory of the Round Table (1583).
• The new arrival of the three Gracis into Anglia, lamenting the abusis of this present age (London).