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Minor Notes.
_The Breeches Bible_.--The able and interesting article on the Breeches
Bible which appeared in a late number of "NOTES AND QUERIES" (Vol. iii., p.
17.) is calculated to remove the deep-rooted popular error which affixes
great pecuniary value to {116} every edition of the Bible in which the
words "made themselves breeches" are to be found, by showing that such
Bibles are generally only worth about as many shillings as they are
supposed to be worth pounds. It is worth noting, with reference to this
translation, that in the valuable early English version, known as
Wickliffe's Bible, just published by the university of Oxford, the passage
in Genesis (cap. iii. v. 7.) is translated "thei soweden togidre leeues of
a fige tree and maden hem brechis."