first New Testament printed at Cambridge, but there were Bibles and Testaments printed there as early as 1591, though this is probably the first edition of the Authorised version issued from Cambridge.

108. The New Testament. Royal or Authorised version. Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and John Bill. 1628. 32mo.

This copy complete.

is much like the last, but has been more used, and is quite

London,

109. The New Testament. Royal or Authorised version. printed by Robert Barker, and by the Assignes of John Bill. 1631. 4to.

This edition is printed in black-letter in long lines with the headings of the chapters and the marginal notes in Roman letter. The title has an engraved border, and is disfigured by a misprint, "Chist" for "Christ.”

110. The New Testament, faithfully translated into English out of the Authentical Latin. The Fourth Edition, enriched with Pictures. Printed by John Costurier. [Rouen] 1633.

4to.

This edition is printed in Roman letter in long lines. The pictures are those of the four Evangelists with their symbols, each at the beginning of his Gospel, and the Pentecost at the beginning of the Acts of the Apostles. St Paul is at the beginning of the Epistles, and St John in Patmos at the beginning of the Revelations.

111. The New Testament. Royal or Authorised version. Edinburgh, Printed by the printers to the King's Most Excellent Majestie. Anno Dom. 1633. 8vo.

There were two editions of 1633 printed at Edinburgh, one "printed by Robert Young," the other as above. This last impression seems to have been very limited and copies are seldom met with. This is an interleaved copy and quite perfect.

112. Reprint of Tyndale's edition of the New Testament, first published in 1526. London, Samuel Bagster. 1836. 8vo.

113. The New Testament in English translated by John Wycliffe circa 1380, now first printed from a contemporary manuscript in the Monastery of Sion, Middlesex. Printed at Chiswick by Charles Whittingham for William Pickering, Picadilly, London. 1848. 4to.

114. Reprint of The First New Testament printed in the English Language (1525 or 1526), translated from the Greek by William Tyndale, reproduced in facsimile with an Introduction by Francis Fry, F.S.A. Bristol, 1862. 8vo.

115. The New Testament. A Facsimile Reprint of the Genevan Testament printed by Conrad Badius, 1557, with the initial and other woodcuts. London, Samuel Bagster & Sons. 1842. 8vo.

116. The Psalmes of Dauid. Trvely opened and explaned by Paraphrasis, set foorth in Latine by that excellent learned man Theodore Beza and faithfully translated into English by Anthonie Gilbie. At London, Printed by John Harrison and Henrie Middleton. 1580. 12mo.

117. The whole Booke of Psalmss collected into English meeter, by T. Sternhold, I. Hopkins and others, conferred with the Hebrue, with apte notes to sing them withal. Imprinted at London by Johne Daye. 1581. 8vo.

118. The Whole Booke of Psalmes, collected into English Metre by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others, with apt notes to sing them withall. London, Printed by John Windet for the assignes of Richard Day. 1601. 12mo.

119. The Whole Booke of Psalmes, collected into English Meeter by Thomas Sternhold and John Hopkins and others, &c. London, Printed for the Companie of Stationers. 1617. 12mo.

120. The Epistles and Gospels, with a brief Postyll upon the same from Trinitie sonday tyll Advent, drawen forthe by divers learned men for the singuler commoditie of al good christians and namely of Prestes and Curates. Imprinted in London by Rychard Bankes. [1511.] 8vo.

121. The Paraphrases of Erasmus on the New Testament. Printed at London by Edwarde Whitchurch. Folio. 1548.

122. A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of Saint John. Set foorth by John Napeir L. of Marchistoun younger. Edinburgh, Printed by Robert Waldegrave. 1593. 4to.

A good copy of this rare treatise by John Napier of Merchiston, afterwards known as the famous mathematician, and the inventor of calculation by logarithms. The book is interesting as containing the earliest notice of the discovery of a Roman Altar at Musselburgh, which gives the words of the inscription:" and even at Musselburgh, among ourselves in Scotland, a foundation of a Romane monument lately found (now utterlie demolished) bearing this inscription dedicatorie Apollini Granno Quintus Lucius Sabinianus Proconsul Aug."

123. The Gospel according to Saint Matthew and part of the first chapter of the Gospel according to Saint Mark translated into English from the Greek, with original notes. By Sir John Cheke, Knight, Secretary of State to King Edward VI. With an Introductory Account, by James Goodwin, B.D. Cambridge, 1843. 8vo.

124. The Prophete Jonas. With an Introduction. By William Tyndale. Reproduced in Facsimile; to which is added Coverdale's version of Jonah. With an Introduction by Francis Fry, F.S.A. London, 1863. 8vo.

There was also Exhibited :

(1) By the Right Hon. Sir HERBERT MAXWELL, Bart., M.P.,

F.S.A. Scot.

A wooden effigy of an Ecclesiastic 2 feet 8 inches in height, found in a moss near the Priory of Whithorn. The wood seems to be oak blackened by long immersion in peat. The figure is vested in ceremonial vestments. The arms, which have not been carved out of the block but inserted, are gone. The mitre is of the later shape, indicating a period probably not earlier than fifteenth century. The effigy is shown in the accompanying illustration to a scale of one-fifth.

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