Did KJV translators persecute others?

Here is an example of the extremes that the High Commission Court could go to. I don't know that any of the KJV translators were involved in this particular case although some of them were still alive and still could have been members of the High Commission Court. Hopefully, none of them were involved in this case. William Laud and the High Commission Court continued in the same pattern as it had following during the reign of King James I.

This example involves the treatment of one Puritan preacher named Alexander Leighton in 1628 or 1629. For writing a book that condemned the institution of bishops as "anti-Christian and satanic," the High Commission Court issued a warrant for him. Leighton was taken to Laud's house and then to the Newgate prison without any trial. Leighton was put in irons in solitary confinement in an unheated cell for fifteen weeks. Thomas Smith stated that the roof of his cell was uncovered so that the rain and snow beat in upon him (SELECT MEMOIRS OF THE LIVES, LABOURS, AND SUFFERINGS OF THOSE PIOUS AND LEARNED ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH DIVINES, p. 428).
None of his friends or even his wife was permitted to see him during this time. According to four doctors, Leighton was so sick that he was unable to attend his supposed sentencing. Historian Will Durant noted that Leighton also "was tied to a stake and received thirty-six stripes with a heavy cord upon his naked back; he was branded in the face, had his nose split and his ears cut off, and was condemned to life imprisonment" (AGE OF REASON BEGINS, pp. 189-190).

 

By the way, William Laud was "Bishop of London" in 1628 while George Abbot (a KJV translator) was still Archbishop of Canterbury until 1633.

Should Archbishop Abbot have rebuked Bishop Laud for his improper treatment of Puritan preacher Alexander Leighton?

 

Actually, the documented evidence showed your above statement to be false.