Chap. II. The HrSTORYó,f'thePoRtrAtes. 467 ftorian againft one of the moil religious and venerable prelates of his age, KingJamesl b r61r. and a fleady friend ofthe conflitution in church and ftate. If Abbot's mo- derate meafures had been confiantly purfued, the liberties of England had been fecuredr popery difcountenanced, and the church prevented from run- ning into thole exceffes, which firft proved its reptoaeh andafterwardsitstuin. The tranflation of the bible now in ufe, was finifhed this year ; it was Accountofaál undertaken at the requefl of the puritan divines in the Hampton-Court con- thons ofJ)hs ference ; and being the lafi, it may not be unacceptable to let before the bible into reader in one view, the various tranflations of the bible into the Engle Englfh. language. The new teflament was firft tranflated by Dr. Wickliffe out of the Wickliffe's vulgar latin about the year 1380. and is entitled The new teflament with N. i 80. '-the lefons taken out of the old law, read in churches according to the u e o 3 p % ÌLewis's ro- Sarum, legorn to The next tranflation was by William Tnidal, printed at Antwerp 1524. wif tiffe's in ocîavo, without a name, and without either calendar, references in the Dute Cal- margin, or tableat the end ; it was correaed by the author, and printed met. in the years 1534 and 1536. having puffed through five editions in Holland. Tyndal's In the mean time Tyndal was tranflating feveral books of the old tefta- newrt 6. ment, as the pentateuch, and the book of zonas, printed 1531 ; the books 5 of,7efhua, judges, Ruth, the four bocks of kings, the two books of Chro- nioles and Nehemiah. About the fame time George icy, fometime fellow of Peter College Cambridge, tranflated the pfalter, the prophecy of 7ere- miah, and thefong ofMofes, and printed them beyond fea. In the year 1535. the whole bible was printed the firft time in folio, Firßediden adorned withwooden cuts, and fcripture references; it was done by fève- of the bible, rai hands, and dedicated to king Henry VIII. by Miles Coverdale. in the 1535 Taft page it is faid to be printed in the year ofour Lord a 535. and finifhed the fourth day of Oelober. This bible was reprinted in quarto 1550, and again with a new title 1553. Two years after the bible was reprinted in Englifh, with this title, Mathew's The holy byble, which is allthe holyfcripture, in which are contained the olde L`ole 537. andnewt Teflament, truelye andpurelye tranflatect into Englifh by [afiç`titiouy name] THOMAS MATHEw, 1537. It has a calendar with an almanach,; andan exhortation to the fiudy of the fcripture, figned f, R. fohn Rogers; a table of contents and marriages ; marginal notes, a prologue ; and in the apocaypfe fome wooden cuts. At the beginning of the prophets ace printed on the topof the page R. G. Richard Grafton, and at the bottom E. W. EdwardWhitchurch, who were the printers. This tranflation, t0 theend of the bookof Chronicles, and the book ofJonah, with all the new teflament, was Tndal's,; the refit was Miles Goverdale's and John ,i'Zogers's. 0o0 2 .In
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