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HISTORY OF PRINTING.

all manner of books, concerning the common law of this realm, for thirty years, all hooks therefore, bearins; his name, were printed for him by others. He left a son, Charles, who suc- ceeded him.

1578. The Bible translated according to ike Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in divers languages. Imprinted at London, by Christopher Barker, printer to the queenes majestie, 1578. Folio.

This is a reprint of the Genevan edition,* and usually denominated the "Breeches Bible.*' The Bishops* bible translates Gen. iii. 7, aprons.

The confoundinfif of these editions has been productive of very dangerous errors.

  • In ISSO. the trAoftf^td/ffwasprintedat Geneva, in 4to.

by Rowland Hall, with an epistle to the queen, (Elizabeth) and another to the reader ; both of which were left oat in subsequent editions. Of this translation, above thirty edi- tions were printed from the year 1560, to i6i6, chiefly by the queen's, and king's printers. Editions of it were like- wise printed at Geneva, Edinburgh, and Amsterdam.

The translators of the Geneimn Bible were Miles Co- verdale, afterwards bishop of Exeter ; Anthony Gllby, afterwards vicar of Ashby- de-la- Zouch, in Leicestershire, died about 1584, at a very great agre ; William Whittingham was born in the city of Chester, in 1524, and educated at Ox- ford, where he became a fellow of All Souls, and afterwards a senior student of Christ Church. In 1550 he went to France, and sett^d at Orleans, where he married the sister of John Calvin. In 1553, he was promoted to the deanery of Durham, which he enjoyed for sixteen years. His zeal against popeiy was so violent, that he destroyed some of the antiqoitles and monuments in Durham cathedral, and took up the stone coffins of the priors of Durham, and or- dered ttieva to be used as troughs for horses to drink in During his residence at Geneva, he translated into metre, five of the Psalm*, of which the 1 1 gth was one, together with the Ten Commandmvni*, and a Prayer, distinguisfaed in the collection of Sternhold and Hopkins, by the initials of his name, W. W. He died July 10, ifi-Q, in the 65th year of his age. Christoplier Goodman was also a native of Chester, born about isig.andeducatedat Oxford, where he became Margaret professor of divinity. During the reign of Mary, he retired to the continent, and settled at Geneva, where he and John Knox were chosen pastors of the Enelish church. On the accession of Elizabeth, he went to Scotland, and was appointed minister of St. Andrew's. In 1S68, he left Scotland, and came to England, and about 1S68, he went to Ireland as chaplain to sir Henry Sidney. In 1571, he was cited to appear at Lambeth, before arch- bishop Parker, and other high commissioners, to answer for opinions contained in a work published during bis exile, in which he had spoken against the government of women, but by subscribingarccantation, acknowledging thatfDodand^o-eized and suppressed the books it issued. Baron Ungnad died at an advanced age, in ifi65, leaving a worthy example of piety and the true use of riches. Primus Truber was the conductor of the Vandalic printing office at Tubingen. He was born at Rosterlic, in Camiola, In 1508. He received his education at Vienna, wtiere he obtained support during his studies by soliciting alms, according to the custom of that country, and thosetimes. In 152', he entered the mi- nistry, but the manner with whicti he supported the doc- trine of Luther, subjected hlra to violent persecutions; and his library, valued at more than four hundred florhis, to be destroyed. He invented a mode ot writing the Vandalic dialects (which had never before been written or printed) in the Latin or Roman character : he was engaged by baron Ungnad, aided by the munificence of the duke of Wurtcmburg, to undertake the institution of a Vandalic printing office at Tubingen. This labour he accompUshed. and afterwards printed there his Vandalic Nrw Tesiamenty in two parts ; the first containing the OoapeU and Acts of the Apostles, in 1 562, of which 3000 copies were printed ; the second, comprisiDg the Epistles and the Revelaiiont in 106s, 4to. and only 1000 copies were struck oflT. Truber died revered and honoured June, 99, 1586.

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