John Phillips (bishop of Sodor and Man)
When the jury had reached their verdict of not-guilty, Phillips was instructed to leave the room before the witches were sentenced to death, as the Bishop's position in the church prevented him from direct involvement in the legal shedding of blood.[5] He died in 1633 at Bishop's Court, in the parish of Ballaugh and was buried in St Germans Cathedral, Peel.[2] It is thought to be based on the phonetics of Yorkshire English, which suggests it was written by someone else as opposed to him, as he was Welsh born.Despite never being wildly used, the orthography that Phillips created has been criticised by Manx language scholars in subsequent centuries.O'Rahilly as being "an abominable system, neither historic nor phonetic, and based mainly on English.”[3] In 1895 A. W. Moore and Sir John Rhŷs edited and published Phillip's manuscript version of the Book of Common Prayer and set it alongside the reprint 1842 of the later Manx translation from 1765.