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1562-1579 m.B.
The    Bishops'   Bible,   1568.

^ [ The Bishops' Bihle is a very noble specimen of English typography. It is a great folio volume
printed in a large type and in double columns. It contains two copperplate engravings, one of the Queen,
aud the other of the Earl of Leicester. If we would realize how the Queen and her favourite looked
when they were in the glory the one of her beauty, the other of his manhood ; we must study these two
engravings. Similarly in a woodcut initial B there is an exquisite portrait of Sir W. Cecil now forty-eight
years of age and before he grew a beard. We more often realize the old whiteheaded Burghley than the
younger Cecil whose piercing eye and calm face in this portrait are but an index of his clear intellect and
wise penetrating insight. ]

19 January 1562.     Portion of a Letter from Richard Cox Bishop
OF Ely, to Sir W. Cecil, advocating a new translation.

^ TE I have perused a lytill treatese called Apologia ecclesicB Anglicanm [by Bishop
Jewell] And geve GOD h[e]arty thankes for it because it is bothe godly
and fynely handled. It will Do muche good, not only in confirming and
comfourting the trew Christians in all places of Europe, but also in stopping
of the mowthes of adaersaryes, or in forcyng them to spewe out, all that
thei haue to say. It is marvelouse well Don to set vppe men abowte such
maters. I am sure that neither in kyng henet nor kyng EDWAnnes tyme
our late soueraynes / was any suche ke[e]ne sworde Drawen / to cut the
aduersaryes. And for as muche as thei can Do so excellently, It shall not
he amisse, ye sett them styll aworke, to make sum breifFe and handsum confutation of
the principall argumentes that the papistes make and glory in. ffor the primacie, for the
abused masse, for their counterfecte catholick church / and such like. That as Eokius
enchiridion is commonly in the handes of every of them, so the trew catholick might
haue a lyke we[a.]pon in a redynes, to Defende them selves from all falsho[o]d

A nother thing there is worthy to be considered / The translation of the hihle to be
committed to mete men and to be v[i]ewed ouer and amended. I called upon [for] it in
hothe my masters tymes [Henry YIII. and Edward YL] sed frustra. Yet GOD he
praised ye haue men hable to Do it thoroughly. Thus muche I signifie to you because
GOD hath apoynted you a speciall instrumente to the furtherance of His heavenly
truthe, vnder so gratious a soverayn / who I trust Doth not mislike the apologie
 

{Dom. Eliz. Vol 21, Art. 18.]
II. 740
 

from Downham the xix. of Januarij 1561[-2]

Yours hartyly assured

Richard Ely.