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Saturday, January 11. 1851. 



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conte>;ts. 



The Breeches, or Geneva Bible . - - - 



Po'-ms discovered among the Papers of Sir Kenel-m 



Oijlby ...-..- 



WorlvS of Caraoens, by John Adamson * -. - 



Folk Lore ---...- 



Kliz ibeth Wallier — Shalispeare . . - 



Old Eng'is'i Actors and Musicians- in Germany - 



Minor Notes: — The Curse of Scotland — George 



Herbert — Dutch Versions of Engiish Essayists — 



Eoni Meg of Westminster — Errors in the Date of 



printed Books •■•--- 



Qderies: — 



Dousa's Poem on Sidney — Old Dutch Song Book 

 Minor Queries :— Sir Clo ulrsley Shovel — Christo- 

 phi^r Flecainnre — '* Earth lias no Rage," &c. — 

 D'Oyly and Barry Families — Lord Crewe, Bishop of 

 Durham — Epi'.^ram t>n the Synod of Dort — Private 

 Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth — Invention of Steam 

 Power — Mythology of the Stars — Sword of Ihe Con- 

 queror — Neville Family— Meaning of " DitTormis'' 



— I,yncli^ Law — Prior's Posthumous Works — Sup- 

 pressed Chantries . - . . . 



Replies: — 



Pagnini's Bible .----- 



The Frozen Horn -----. 



Doininicals ------- 



Med.ils struck by Charles XU. — Rudbeck's Atlantica, 



by G. J. R. Gordon - . - . . 



Replies to Minor Queries: — Fossil Deer (not Elk) of 



Ireland — "Away, let nought to love displeasing" 



— Red Siiidon — Coleridge and the Penny Post — 

 Autograph of Titiis Oates — Circulation of the Blood 

 — True Blue — Cherubi>n and Seraphim — Darcy Lever 

 Church — Lines atrributed to Lord Palmerston — 

 Defender of the Faith — F irquharsoii on Aurora, &c. 



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Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. - - - 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - - 

 Notices to Correspondents - - - - - 



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THE BREECHES, OR GENEVA BIBLE. 



Of this, the most popular eilition of the Scrip- 

 tures in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, we meet 

 continually with crronetiiis opinions of its rarity, 

 and also of its value, which the following brief 

 statement may tend in a degree to correct. 



The translation wiis undertaken by certain re- 

 formers who Hcil to Geneva during the reign of 

 Queen Mary ; and is attributed to W. Whitting- 

 ham, Anthony Gilijy, Miles Covcrdale, Thomas 

 Sampson, Christopher (Joodman, Thomas Cole, 

 John Knox, John Bodleigh, and John PuUain ; 



but Mr, Anderson, in his History of the English 

 Bible, says that the translatm-s were Whittingham,, 

 Gilby, and Samjison : and from the facts stated, he 

 is, no doubt, correct. 



It is called the "Breeches Bible" from the 

 Tendering of Genesis, iii. 7. : 



" Tlu-n the eyes of them bothe were opened, and they 

 knewe that they were naked, and they sewed tig tree 

 leaves together, and made themselves breeches." 



The first edition of the Geneva Bible was printed 

 at Geneva in 1.562, folio, preceded by a dedication 

 to Queen Elizabeth, and an address "To our be- 

 loved in the Lord the brethren of England, Scot- 

 land, Ireland," &c, ; dated from Geneva, lOih 

 April, 1561. This edition contains two remark- 

 able errors : Matt. v. 9. " Blessed are the place 

 makers." Luke xxi. " Christ condcmneth the poor 

 widow." This is the first Bible divided into verses. 



Second edit. 4to., printed at Geneva, 1569, To 

 this edition is added " Certeine Tables, A Calendar, 

 and Fairs in Fraunce and elsewhere," 



The fi,rst edition printed in London is a small 

 folio. Imprinted by Christopher Barker, 1576, 



The first edition of the Scriptures printed in 

 Scotland is the Geneva version, folio, began 1576, 

 by Thomas Bassandyne ; and finished in 1579 by 

 Alexander Arbuthnot, 



Other editions, 1577, London, sm. fol. ; 1578, 

 sm. fol. ; 4to., 1579 ; two editions 4to., 1580, 1581 ; 

 sm. fol., 1582 ; 4to., 1583 ; lar. fol,, 1583 ; 4to,, 

 1585; 4to,, 1586; Svc, 1586; 4to., 1587 ; 4to., 

 1588; 4to., 1589; 8vo., Cambridge, 1591, sup- 

 posed to be first printed at the University ; fol., 

 1592; 4to,, 15;t4; 4to., 1595; fob, 1595; 4to., 

 1597 ; sm. fol., 1597 ; 4to., 1598 ; 4to., 1599, Of this 

 last date, said to be " Imprinted at London by the 

 deputies of Chr. Barker," but probably printed at 

 Dort, and other places in Holland, there wei'e at 

 least seven editions; and, before 1611, there were 

 at least twenty other editions. 



Between the years 1562 and 1611, there were 

 printed at least 130 editions of the Geneva Bible, 

 in folio, 4to., and 8vo. ; each edition probably con- 

 sisted of 1000 copies. 



Persons who know but little of the numbers 

 which are extant of this volume, have asked 100/., 



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