William Boyes DialogTie between a Christian Father and Ms Etnbborn Son. 405 



genösse William Tyndale. der sich seiner bei der Herstellung- 

 und Drucklegung der ersten Ausgabe seiner englischen Ueber- 

 setzung des Xeuen Testamentes bedient hatte, ungünstig. In 

 der Address to the Reader, welche ,The Parable of the Wycked 

 Mammon' etc. (gedruckt 1528 in ]\Iarburg in Hessen) voran- 

 geht, spricht sich Tyndale folgendermassen über Roy und 

 seinen Antheil an der englischen Uebersetzung aus: ,Whyle I 

 abode a faythtul companyon ' which now hath taken an other 

 vyage vpon him, to preach christ where (I suppose) he was 

 never yet preached (God which put in his herte thyther to goo 

 sende his sprite with him, comforte him and bringe his pur- 

 pose to good effecte) one William Roye a man somewhat 

 craftye when he cometh %Tito new acquayntaunce and before 

 he be thorow knowen and namely when all is spent, came 

 vnto me and offered his helpe. As longe as he had no money, 

 somwhat I could ruele him: but as sone as he had goten him 

 money, he became lyke hym seife agayne. Xeuerthelesse I 

 suffered all thinges tyll yat was ended whych I coulde not 

 doo alone wythout one both to wryte and :<• helpe me to com- 

 pare ye textes together. When that was ended I toke my leue 

 and bode him farewel for oure two lyues, and as man saye a 

 daye longer. After we were departed he went, and gate him 

 new frendes which thinge to doo he passeth all that ever I 

 yet knewe. And there when he had stored hym of money he 

 gote him to Argentine where he professeth wonderfull faculties 

 and maketh bost of no small thinges. A yere after that and 

 now. xii. monethes before the pryntinge of this worke- came 

 one Jerom-^ a brother of Grenewhich also, thorow wormes to 



' Arber, der sowohl in den Facs. Texts, The first printed etc. als in Rede 

 me etc. diese Stelle Tyndale's mittheilt, kann sich nicht mit Sicherheit 

 darüber aussprechen , wen Tyndale unter diesem erwarteten faythful 

 companyon gemeint habe, hält es jedoch fiir nicht unwahrscheinlich, 

 dass es Thomas Hutton gewesen sein dürfte, der am 24. Februar 1529 

 den Märtyrertod starb. Wir sind bei Wiedergabe dieser Stelle Arber ge- 

 folgt, da die Ausgabe der Parker Society, die wir oben angeführt haben, 

 durch die Modemisirung der Orthographie leider sehr an Brauchbarkeit 

 verloren hat. 



- Der Druck der Parable of the Wycked Mammon wurde am 8. Mai 1528 

 vollendet. 



3 Barlow, s. oben S. 393. 



Siteniigtber. d. phil.-hist. Ol. L>lXV1. Bd. lU. Hft. 27 



