I say in England, because the first Bible, known as Coverdale's, and several editions of the Testament, translated by Tyndale, had been previously printed abroad in secrecy.

Grafton's first edition of the Bible was a reprint of Coverdale and Tyndale's translation, with slight alterations, by one who assumed the name of Thomas Matthew, but whose real name was John Rogers, then Prebendary of St. Paul's, and afterward burned as a heretic in Smithfield.

Thus, in 1538, when a new edition of the Bible, commonly called the "Great Bible," afterward published in 1539, was secretly printing in Paris at the instance of Lord Cromwell, under the superintendence of Grafton, Whitchurch, and Coverdale, the French inquisitors of the faith interfered, charging them with heresy, and they were fortunate in making their escape to England.

(From frontispiece to Coverdale Bible).

From frontispiece to Coverdale Bible.] While this period did not produce a single great poet or a statesman of the first rank, it witnessed the destruction of the majority of the nobility in the Wars of the Roses, the increase of the king's power, the decline of feudalism, the final overthrow of the knight by the yeoman with his long bow at Agincourt(1415), the freedom of the serf, and the growth of manufactures, especially of wool.

Of his translation, Brooke says: "It was this Bible which, revised by Coverdale, and edited and reëdited as Cromwell's Bible, 1539, and again as Cranmer's Bible, 1540, was set up in every parish church in England.

Harry Coverdale's Courtship and Marriage.

COVERDALE'S BIBLE.

The Holy Scriptures faithfully and truly translated by MILES COVERDALE, Bishop of Exeter, 1535, reprinted from the Duke of Sussex's copy.

Ten years later Miles Coverdale made, at Zurich, a translation of the whole Bible from the German and Latin.

Birthplace of Coverdale.

Can you inform me of the birthplace of Miles Coverdale?

["Bishop Myles Coverdale is supposed to have been born in the year of our Lord 1488, in the district of Coverdale, in the parish of Coverham, near Middleham, in the North Riding of Yorkshire; and it is the opinion of the learned historian of Richmondshire, that it is an assumed, and not a family name."

["Bishop Myles Coverdale is supposed to have been born in the year of our Lord 1488, in the district of Coverdale, in the parish of Coverham, near Middleham, in the North Riding of Yorkshire; and it is the opinion of the learned historian of Richmondshire, that it is an assumed, and not a family name."

Pearson, B.D., the very competent editor of the works of Bishop Coverdale, published by the Parker Society.

Coverdale has it, "take out of his bagge," and Luther, "langte aus seinem Sücklein," which word is exchanged for büdel in the Saxon version.

With this book as inspiration and resource, William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale were so to continue and complete the task of The Venerable Bede and John Wyclif as to make an epoch in the history of that language to be used by Shakespeare and Burkean era as distinct as that which Luther's Bible so soon should mark in the history of a language to be such a potent instrument in the hands of Goethe and Hegel.

COVERDALE, MILES, translator of the English Bible, born in Yorkshire; his translation was the first issued under royal sanction, being dedicated to Henry VIII.

5 was thus translated by Matthew, who adopted his translation from Coverdale and Tyndale:"So that thou shalt not need to be afrayed for any bugge by nyght, nor for the arrow that flyeth by day."