Norwich.
P.S.--This account was furnished to me by Mr. E. Mills, husband of the
late Mrs. Mills.
_Catholic Bible Society_ (Vol. ix., p. 41.).--Besides the account of
this society in Bishop Milner's _Supplementary Memoirs of the English
Catholics_, many papers on the same will be found in the volumes of the
_Orthodox Journal_ from 1813, when the Society was formed, to 1819. In
this last volume, p. 9., Bishop Milner wrote a long letter, containing a
comparison of the brief notes in the stereotyped edition of the above
Society with the notes of Bishop Challoner, from whose hands he mentions
having received a copy of his latest edition of both Testaments in 1777.
It should be mentioned that most of the papers in the _Orthodox Journal_
alluded to were written by Bishop Milner under various signatures, which
the present writer, with all who knew him well, could always recognise.
That eminent prelate thus sums up the fate of the sole publication of
the so-called Catholic Bible Society:
"Its stereotype Testament ... was proved to abound in gross
errors; hardly a copy of it could be sold; and, in the end, the
plates for continuing it have been of late presented by an
illustrious personage, into whose hands they fell, to one of our
prelates [this was Bishop Collingridge], who will immediately
employ the cart-load of them for a good purpose, as they were
intended to be, by disposing of them to some pewterer, who will
convert them into numerous useful culinary implements,
gas-pipes, and other pipes."