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constitution. It is no dishonour to embrace truth from whatever quarter it comes, or with whatever view it may originally have been ad- vanced. Robert Parsons died at Rome, in the sixty-fifth year of age.
1610. The Douav Bible printed by Law- he nce Kellam, in two volumes 4to. with the following title : The Holie Bible faithfully tram, lated into Englith, out of the authenticate Latin, diligently conferred with the Hebrew, Greek, and other edttiom, in divers Languoffet. With Argu- ment* of the Bookei and Chapten, Anrtotaticm. Tables, and other Helpesfor better understanding of the Text, for discoverie of Corruptions in some late Translations, and for cleering Contro- versies in Religion. By the English College oj Doutt^. PrinUd by Lawrence Kellam.
This translation was made by and under the superintendenceofthesame translators as the New Testament at Rheims, in 1583 (see page 370, ante.) In I A 1 7, a convent of English Francis- can Recollects was established at Douay.
1610. Andro Habt a printer at Edinburgh,
Iiublished an edition of the Bible, with the lol- owing title : The Bible, that is, the Holy Scrip- tures contained in the Olde and New Testament. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diverse languages : with most profitable annotations vpon all hard places, and other things of great impor- tance. " Feare yee not, stand still, and-beholde the salvation of the Lord, which he will shew to you this day. Exod. xiv. 15." Then follows an engraving, representing t?ie passage of the Bed Sea, which is encompassed by this text, " Great are the troubles of the righteous ; but the Lord delivered them out of them all. Psalm xxxiv. 19." Under the sculpture is the following text, " The Lord shall fight for you ; therefore hold you your peace." At Edinburgh, printed by An- dro Hart, and are to be sold at his buith, at the north side of the gate, a little beneath the cross. Anno Dom. 1610.
Cum Privilegio Regite Majestatis.
Hart's Bible seems to contain the same prefa- tory matter as that of Bassendyne; witn the addition of An Almanack and Table for forty yeeret to come : [1610-1659.] The old testament is obviously the general translation, which seems to have been printed, rather from Bassendyne's edition, than the Geneva edition. And it has the ssone arguments and marginal references, with some additional annotations. Hart's edition has sculptures throughout, representing scrip- tural countries, events, and things.
At the end of the Apocrypha, follows: Tite New Testament of our Lord Jesus Christ, trans- lated out of Greeke, by Theod. Beza. Whereunto are adjoyned brief e Summaries of Doctrine upon the Evangelists aitd Acts of the Apostles, by the said Theod. Beta. And also short Expositions on the Phrases and hard Places, taken out of the large Annotations cf the foresaid author, and Joaeh. Camerarius, and P. Los. Valerius. En- glislied by L. Thomson. Together with the Anno-
tationi of Fr. Junius, upon the Revelation of St. John. At the end are two tables : the first, of the Interpretation of the proper names which are chiefly found in the old testament : the second table is, of the principal things that are con- tained in the Bible, after the order of the alphabet Such is the Old and New Testament of Andro Hart, which is praised by Watson, in bis curious account of the Scottish Printers, as wellprinted.
There was an Andro Hart, a bookbinder, at Edinburgh, at this time, of whom nothing is known except his having bound some books for James VI. In the account of the Library of Mary queen of Scots and James VI. 4to. u the following entry :
April, 1602. Item payit to Andro Hart Bulk binder, for certane buikis quhilkis wer gevin to Mr. Adam Newtoun for the Prince his use, as the said Mr Adamis ressait thairof producit tes- tifieis, xzxj li. ix s.
1610. Died, George. Bishop, deputy printer to queen Elizabeth, and an alderman of the city of London. He married Mary, the daugh- ter of John Cawood. He was master of the company in 1590, 1692, a part of 1593, 1600, 1602, and 1608. He gave, by his last will, two tenements called Newton, with the lands thereto belonging in the parish of Milbomstoke, Salop, for five oundred years, at the quit rent of a pepper-corn, to pay j66 a-yearto Christ's Hospi- tal; £6 yearly to the company; and also to pay £10 yearly among such preachers as come to preach at Paul's Cross, and who, in the judgment of the mayor and commonalty of London, are not sufliciently provided for; re- mainder to Christ's Hospital. On failure of issue by hi^ daughter Martha, he leaves all his freeholds. New ton before-mentioned excepted, to the mayor, commonalty, and citizens of Lon- don, governors of Christ's Hospital, on condition of applying the rents to the following purposes: jC60a year to' the maintaining three poor students in divinity ; the first three to be cnosen by the mavor, commonalty, and citizens of London ; ana next by the master, warden, commonalty of the stationers' company, and so for ever. In particular, Christ's church, Oxford ; where his son died and was buried, to be chosen rather than any other, as often as vacancies of scholarships permit ; and any poor kindred of his family to have the preference. This allowance to cease as soon as any student is beneficed, or dismissed for misconduct. One moiety of the residue of such rents to be applied to the relief of the poor children of Christ's hospital and the other to be paid to the master and wardens of the company of stationers. Provided that if in the judgment of the master, wardens, and assistants of the com- pany in writing under their common seal, the mayor, commonalty, and citizens should be found to be remiss or negligent, in bestowing such rents according to the testator's intention, the bequest to them to be utterly void.
Mrs. Mary Bishop, wife of the above, gave, in 1608, to the stationers' company a table-cloth.
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