Totnes, Devon, Jan. 30. 1850.
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_Litany Version of the Psalms_.--The doubts produced by Beloe's
self-contradicting statements on the subject of the Bishops' Bible,
which are referred to by "X.X." (No. 13. p. 203.), may thus be
settled. The first edition of this Bible, printed in 1568, contains
a new translation of the Psalms by Becon. In the second folio
edition, 1572, are inserted, in opposite columns, "the translation
according to the Ebrewe," which differs but little from the former,
in Roman letter, and "the translation used in common prayer," or
that of the Great Bible, printed by Whitchurch, 1553, in black
letter.
The clarum et venerabile nomen associated with the Bishops' Bible, a
very magnificent and perfect copy of which is now open before me,
suggests the inquiry whether there is any copy known of Archbishop
Parker's rare volume on the English Church, 1572, which is not
noticed by Martin in the list of eighteen which he had discovered.
He does not mention that in the Chetham library.