A 468 The HISTORY of the PURITANS. Chap. Jr. KingJamesI. In the year 1539 the abovementioned tranflation having been reviled 1611. and corrected by archbifhop Cranmer, was reprinted by Grafton and Whit- Cram, church, cuní privilegio ad imprimendum folum. It has this title, The bible in bible. Englyfhe, that is to fay, the content of the holyfcripture, both of the olde and 1539. newe tellament, truely tran/hatedafter the veritie of the Hebrue andGreke Texts, by the diligent fiudy of.divers excellent andlearned men, expert in the forefayde tongues. In this edition Tyndal's prologue and marginal notes are omitted. It was reprinted the following year in a large folio, proper for churches, begun at Paris, and finifhed at London. In the year 1541. it was printed again by Grafton, with a preface by Cranmer, having been re- vifed by Tonfial and Heath, bifhops of Durham andRochefler. But after thistime thepopifh party prevailing at court, there were no more editions ofthe bible in this reign. 1548. Soon after king Edward's acceflion the bible of 554.1. had been reprinted, 1549 with Cranmer's prologue ; and the liturgyof thechurch of England, being firft compofed and eftablifhed, the tranflation of the pfalter, commonly called the old tranflation, in ufe at this day, was taken from this edition, Next year Coverdale's teftament of 1535. was reprinted with Erafinus's paraphrafe ; but there was no new tranflation. Geneva In the reign of queen Mary [1555] the exiles at Geneva undertook a bible. new tranflation, commonly called the Geneva bible; the names of the 1559 tranflators were Coves-dale, Goodman, Gilby, Whittingbam, Sampfon, Cole, Knox, Bodleigh and Pullain, who publifhed the new teframent firft in a (mall twelves, 1557. by Conrad Badius. This was the firft that was prin- ted with numerical verfes. The whole bible was publifhed afterwards with marginal notes, 1559. dedicated to queen Elizabeth. The tranfla- tors fay, ' They had been employed in this work night and day, with "fear and trembling and they proteft from their confciences, that in every point and word they had faithfully rendered the text to the heft of " their knowledge." But the marginal notes having givenofence, it was not fuffered to be publifhed in England 'till the death of archbifhop Parker, when it was printed [1576.] by Chropher Barker, in quarto, cum privi- legio, and met with fuch acceptance, that it pafi"ed through twenty or thirty editions in this reign. ,BOop'sbibta. Cranmer's edition of the bible had been reprinted in the years 1562. and 1566. for the ufe of the_churches. But complaint being made of the is - correétnefs of it, archbifhop Parker projected a new tranflation, and af- figned the feveral books of the old and new teftament to about fourteen dignitaries of the church, moil of whom being bops, it was from them called THE BISHOP'S BIBLE, and was printed in an elegant and pompous B5 8 folio; in the year 1568. with maps and cuts. In the year 1572. it was re- printed
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