GODWIN, FRANCIS (1562-1633), English divine, son of Thomas Godwin, bishop of Bath and Wells, was born at Hanning ton, Northamptonshire, and studied at Christ Church, Oxford. After holding two Somersetshire livings he was in 1587 appointed subdean of Exeter, bishop of Llandoff (16o1) and of Hereford (1617) . His Catalogue of the Bishops of England since tile first planting of the Christian Religion in this Island (16o1; and ed., 1615; Latin ed., 1616) was republished, with a continuation by William Richardson, in 1743. In 1616 Godwin produced Rerum Anglicarum, Henrico VIII., Edwardo VI. et Maria regnantibus, Annales, afterwards translated and published by his son Morgan under the title Annales of England (163o) . His The Man in the Moone, or a Discourse of a Voyage thither, by Domingo Gonsales, written apparently between 1599 and 1603 and published post humously in 1638, was imitated in several important particulars by Cyrano de Bergerac, from whom, if not from Godwin direct, Swift borrowed in writing of Gulliver's voyage to Laputa. An other work of Godwin's, Nuncius inanimatus Utopiae (1629), seems to have been the prototype of John Wilkins's Mercury, or the Secret and Swift Messenger, which appeared in 1641.