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a town in Rhode land, jim Kentco. It is 18 miles S.W. of Providence and is an important manufacturing community. Pop. 1920, 5,670. Eng. reformer and translator of Bible; his trans. of Bible (far inferior to Tyndale’s) was pub. in 1535; parts subsequently incorporated in A.V.; famous preacher under Edward VI.; made Bishop of Exeter in 1551; deposed under Mary. See Brsre.