come the means of communicating to other minds a more lively and more intelligent interest in the subject of which it treats. No other Christian people can show a vernacular Bible with such a history as ours; so consecrated by high purpose and noble sacrifice, so baptized in the tears and blood of faithful souls, so linked with the inmost life and history of the people. At what cost the Divine Word has been placed in the possession of the English race, and what it has done for that race, are matters which every Christian and every lover of his country has an interest in knowing. Without such knowledge, we can neither rightly estimate its value, nor labor intelligently for the perpetuation of its influence. The friends, who have kindly aided me by the loan of valuable books, will please to accept my grateful acknowledgments for the favor. My thanks are especially due to George Livermore, Esq., of Cambridge, Mass., for loans from his private library,* as well as for other friendly services; and to Wm. H. Wyckoff, Esq., Cor. Sec. of the Am. Bible Union, through whose courtesy I have had the use of important works from the library of that Society. The volumes referred to as belonging to Harvard University Library, were examined for me by a literary friend. *It is a noteworthy and interesting fact, that this library, collected by a layman engaged in active business, contains the greatest variety of rare old versions and editions of the English Scriptures to be found in this country Some interesting particulars respecting it, are given in Mr. Farnham's re cent ace ant of Private Libraries in the vicinity of Boston. The principal works consulted in the preparation of this volume are the following: LIFE AND OPINIONS OF JOHN DE WYCLIFFE; by Robert Vaughan, D. D. 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1828. JOHN DE WYCLIFFE, A MONOGRAPH; by Robert Vaughan, D. D. 1853. The first of these works is not superseded by the second, which omits many interesting details of the earlier memoir. To the two I am chiefly indebted for the facts of Wickliffe's history, and for the extracts from his writings. THE HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND SUFFERINGS OF THE REVEREND AND LEARNED JOHN WICLIFFE. D. D. By John Lewis. London, 1720. PREFACE TO WICLIFFE'S BIBLE; edited by Forshall & Madden, Oxford, 1850. HENRY'S HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN; 4th ed. London, 1805. Of this writer the Halle Encyclopædia (Ersch u. Gruber's) says:-" The affairs of the church, the inner history of the people, government, manners, commerce, the arts and sciences, engaged his attention to a greater degree than they did that of Hume; and all these he combines in a series of graphic and instructive delineations, the result of his own careful and impartial researches." For the character of the Romish priesthood, and the condition of England under their sway, this author has been chiefly relied on in the present work. HENR. KNYGHTON, CHRONICA ANGLIE, (in Twysden's Scriptores decem, Vol. II.) HALLAM'S MIDDLE AGES. ANNALS OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE; by Christopher Anderson, 8vo. London, 1845. 2 vols. The materials for the personal history of Tyndale and Frith have been chiefly furnished by this work. MEMOIR OF WILLIAM TYNDALE, by George Offor; (prefixed to Bagster's reprint of Tyndale's New Testament, London, 1836.) INTRODUCTION TO BAGSTER'S HEXAPLAR NEW TESTAMENT. WRITINGS OF TYNDALE AND FRITH; (Works of the Eng Reformers, ed. by Thomas Russel, London, 1831.) RUDHART'S THOMAS MORUS, aus den Quellen, bearbeitet; 2to Ausg. Augsburg, 1852. Fox's ACTS AND Monuments; folio, London, 1641. BURNET'S HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION; 2 vols, 4to., London, 1850. THE WORKS OF SIR THOMAS MORE, KNYGHTE, Sometime Lorde Chancellour of England, wrytten by him in the Englysh tonge; 4to., pp. 1458. London, 1557. The only edition of his English writings. It was published by Rastell in the last year of Queen Mary's reign; and was dedicated to her majesty, as an important aid to her efforts for the re-establishment of Romanism. ARCHBISHOP PARKER, DE ANTIQUIT. BRIT. ECCLESIÆ; London, 1729. MEMORIALS OF MILES COVERDALE; London, Samuel Bagster, 1838. MEMOIR OF MILES COVERDALE; prefixed to Bagster's reprint of Coverdale's translation of the Bible. LEWIS' HISTORY OF THE TRANSLATIONS OF THE HOLY BIBLE INTO ENGLISH; London, 1818. PREFACE TO THE GENEVAN NEW TESTAMENT, 1557; Bagster's fac-simile reprint, London. PREFACE TO THE GENEVAN BIBLE, AND DEDICATION TO QUEEN ELIZABETH, 1560; (from the Edition of 1583). STRYPE'S MEMORIALS OF ARCHBISHOP CRANMER; 2 vols., 8vo. Oxford, 1840. STRYPE'S LIFE AND ACTS OF ARCHBISHOP PARKer, 1 vol. fol. London, 1740. STRYPE'S HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND ACTS OF ARCHBHOP GRINDAL; 1 vol. fol. London, 1710. STRYPE'S LIFE AND ACTS OF ARCHыISHOP WHITGIFT; 1 vol. fol. London, 1718. These Memoirs of the English Protestant Primates in the sixteenth century, were written by their ardent admirer and apologist, himself a zealous High-Churchman From his representations of the growth of Puritanism in the English Church, and the measures used for its suppression, has been drawn the account given of them in this volume. FULLER'S CHURCH HISTORY; 3 vols. 8vo. London, 1842. STRYPE'S ANNALS of the REFORMATION; Oxford. 1824. ARCHBISHOP PARKER'S PREFACE TO THE BISHOPS' BIBLE. HEFELE, DER CARDINAL XIMENES; Tübingen, 1851. BISHOP BARLOW'S ACCOUNT OF THE HAMPTON COURT CONFERENCE; London, 1604. WILKINS, CONCILIA MAGNE BRIT. ET HIB. London, 1737. GELL'S ESSAY TOWARDS THE AMENDMENT OF THE LAST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE; 1 vol. fol. 1659. FULKE'S DEFENCE OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE; (ed. for the Parker Society, Cambridge, 1843). WHITELOCKE'S MEMORIALS OF THE ENGLISH AFFAIRS; London, 1732. JOURNALS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, published by order of the House. TISCHENDORF'S REISE IN DEN ORIENT; Leipzig, 1846. TRANSLATORS' PREFACE TO KING JAMES' REVISION, (Field'з Edition, 2 vols. fol. London, 1659), and DEDICATION TO THE KING. |