Georgirenes, Joseph, Archbishop of Samos.

?presentation copy. The title bears the inscription: "By Mr Denton ye translator Dec. 20 1677" (the work was licensed on 14 July 1677 but according to the imprint on the title not published until 1678 so this is a very early inscription), to which has been added in another hand "Anglesey" (presumably the politician Arthur Annesley (1614-1686), first earl of Anglesey, whose library of some 30,000 volumes was the largest private library of the time).

"[Denton] befriended Joseph Georgirenes, archbishop of Samos, and their friendship continued when Georgirenes came to England in 1676 to have a liturgical work printed for his parishioners. Georgirenes soon became involved in the plan to build a church for the Greek colony in London. (The church in Soho Fields was to give its name to Greek Street.) Hoping to raise money for it, he wrote his Description of the Present State of Samos, Nicaria, Patmos, and Mount Athos (1678). Dedicated to the duke of York (later James II) and strongly anti-Turkish and anti-Venetian, the text was translated into English by Denton, who added explanatory notes and an epistle to the reader emphasizing the points of agreement between the Greek church and the Church of England" (Alastair Hamilton, ODNB).