John Stevens was a translator, antiquary, one time editor of the “British Mercury”, fluent Spanish speaker, and worked on putting many church-related texts into English.
Reference:
G. Martin Murphy, Stevens, John (c.16621726), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26423, accessed 13 June 2011].
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