1. In Bayle's very useful work, _Scriptorum Illustrium Majoris Brytanniæ
Catalogus_, fol. Bas. 1559, among the writings ascribed to John Purvey,
one of Wycliffe's followers, and (as Walden styles him) _Glossator_, is
mentioned _Commentarius in Apocalypsin_, beginning "Apocalypsis, quasi
diceret;" and Bayle adds:--
"Prædictus in Apocalypsin Commentarius ex magistri Wielevi
lectionibus publicis per Joannem Purvæum collectus, et nunc per
Martinum Lutherum, _Ante centum annos_ intitularus, anno Domini
1528, sine authoris nomine, Witembergæ fuit excusus. Fuit et
ipse Author in carcere, ac cathenis insuper chalybeis, cum ea
Commentaria scripsit, ut ex decimo et undecimo ejus scripti
capite apparet. Scripsit autem Purvæus hunc librum anno Domini
1390, ut ex decimo tertio capite et principio vigesimi apparet."
This account of Bayle (who is mistaken, however, about the _title_ of
the work) is confirmed by Panzer; who, in his _Annales_, vol. ix. p. 87.
enters the volume thus, "_Commentarius in Apolcalypsin ante Centum Annos
æditus, cum Præfatione Maritini Lutheri_. Wittembergæ, 1528. 8vo." Can
any of your readers refer me to a copy of this book in a public library,
or in private hands?
2. In Lewis's _History of the Translations of the Bible_, edit. 1818. p.
25., he quotes a work of Bishop Bonner, "_Of the Seven Sacraments_,
1555," in which a manuscript English Bible is cited by the Bishop, as
then in his possession, "translated out of Latyne in tyme of heresye
almost eight-score years before that tyme, i.e. about 1395, fayre and
truly written in parchment." Lewis proceeds to conjecture, that this MS.
was the same which is preserved in the Bodleian Library under the mark
Fairfax, 2. And in this erroneous supposition he has been followed by
later writers. The copy in question, which belonged to Bonner, is
actually in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, No. 25., and contains
the Pentateuch in the _earlier_ Wycliffite version (made, no doubt, by
Nicholas Hereford), whilst the rest of the Old and New Testament is in
the _later_ or revised translation by Purvey and his coadjutors. What I
now wish to inquire about, is, where can I meet with a copy of Bonner's
work, _De Septem Sacramentis_, in which the passages occur referred to
by Lewis? They are not in _A Profitable and Necessarye Doctryne, with
certayne Homelies adjoyned_, printed in 1555 by John Carood, although
one of these homilies is on the subject of the seven sacraments.