BIBLE. 
vised and republished by the same person 
in 1530. The prologues and prefaces added 
to it reflect on the bishops and clergy ; but 
this edition was also suppressed, and the 
copies burnt. In 1532, Tindal and his as- 
sociates finished the whole Bible, except 
the Apocrypha, and printed it abroad ; but 
while he was afterwards preparing for a se- 
cond edition, he was taken up and burnt 
for heresy in Flanders. 
Matthews's. On Tindal’s death, his work 
was carried on by Coverdale, and John Ro- 
gers, superintendent of an English church 
in Germany, and the first martyr in the 
reign of Queen Mary, who translated the 
Apocrypha, and revised Tindal's translation, 
comparing it with the Hebrew, Greek, La- 
tin, and German, and adding prefaces and 
notes from Luther’s Bible. He dedicated 
the whole to Henry VIII. in 1537 , under 
the borrowed name of Thomas Matthews ; 
whence this has been usually called Mat- 
thews’s Bible. It was printed at Ham- 
burgh, and licence obtained for publishing 
it in England, bv the favour of Archbishop 
Cranmer, and the Bishops Latimer and 
Shaxton. 
Cranmer's. The first Bible printed by 
authority in England, and publicly set up in 
churches, was the same Tindal’s version re- 
vised, compared with the Hebrew, and in 
many places amended, by Miles Coverdale, 
afterwards bishop of Exeter ; and examined 
after him by Archbishop Cranmer, who ad- 
ded a preface to it : whence this was called 
Cranmer’s Bible. It was printed by Graf- 
ton, of the largest volume, and published in 
1540 ; and, by a royal proclamation, every 
parish was obliged to set one of the copies 
in their church, under the penalty of forty 
shillings a month; yet, two years after, the 
Popish bishops obtained its suppression of 
the king. It was restored under Edward VI. 
suppressed again under Queen Mary, aDd 
restored again in the first year of Queen 
Elizabeth, and a new edition of it given in 
1562. 
Geneva. Some English exiles at Geneva 
in Queen Mary’s reign, Coverda’e, Good- 
man, Gilbie, Sampson, Cole, Whittingham, 
and Knox, made a new transition, printed 
there in 1560, the New Testament haying 
been printed in 1557, hence called the Ge- 
neva Bible, containing the variations of 
readings, marginal annotations, fix.. on ac- 
count of which it was much valued by the 
Puritan party in that and the following 
reigns. 
Bishops. Archbishop Parker resolved 
on a new translation for the public use of the 
church, anti engaged the bishops and other 
learned men to take each a share or portion. 
These being afterwards joined together, 
and printed with short annotations in 1568, 
in a large folio, made what was afterwards 
called the great English Bible, and com- 
monly the Bishop’s Bible. The following 
year it was also published in 8vo. in a small, 
but fine black letter, and here the chap- 
ters were divided into verses ; but without 
any breaks for them, in which the method of 
the Geneva Bible was followed, which wax 
the first English Bible where any distinction 
of verses was made. It was afterwards 
printed in large folio, with corrections, and 
several prolegomena, in 1572 : this is called 
Matthew Parker’s Bible. The initial let- 
ters of each translator’s name were put at 
the end of his part : e. gr. at the end of the 
Pentateuch, W. E. for William Exon ; that 
is, William Bishop of Exeter, whose allot- 
ment ended there : at the end of Samuel, 
R. M. for Richard Menevensis, or Bishop of 
St. David’s, to whom the second allotment 
fell : and the like of the rest. The arch- 
bishop foresaw, directed, examined, and 
finished the whole. This translation was 
used in the churches for 40 years, though 
the Geneva Bible was more read in private 
houses, being printed above SOj times in as 
many years. King James bore it an inve- 
terate hatred on account of the notes, which 
at the Hampton-court conference he charg- 
ed as partial, untrue, seditious, &c. The 
Bishop’s Bible too had its faults. The king 
frankly owned he had yet seen no good 
translation of the Bible in English ; but he 
thought that of Geneva the worst of all. 
Rhemish. After the translation of the 
Bible by the bishops, two other private 
versions had been made of the New Testa- 
ment: the first by Laurence Thomson, made 
from Beza’s Latin edition, together with the 
notes of Beza, published in 1582 in 4to., and 
afterwards in 1589, varying very little Horn 
the Geneva Bible ; the second by the Papists 
at Rheirns, in 1584, called the Rhemish 
Bible, or Rhemish translation. These find- 
ing it impossible to keep the people from 
having the Scriptures in the vulgar tongue, 
resolved to give a version of their own, as 
favourable to their cause as might be. It 
was printed in a large paper, with a fair let- 
ter and margin. One complaint against it 
was its retaining a multitude of Hebrew and 
Greek words untranslated, for want, as the 
editors express it, of proper and adequate 
terms in the English to render them by, as 
