INTRODUCTION
 

I.
 

EVERTING to the last subject of our
Third Introduction: we are now
able to adduce the following incon¬
trovertible testimony which associ¬
ates Stationers' Hall—not Aber¬
gavenny House which occupied the
site of the present Hall, until it was
destroyed by the Fire of London in
1666; but the prior Hall on the
South-east of Saint Paul's Church¬
yard—with our present Authorized
Translation of the Scriptures.

Among the Baker Transcripts
in the British Museum is a copy of
a condensed Life and Death of the
Reverend JoEN Bois, B.D., Rector

of Boxworth  and   Prebendary   of  Ely   Cathedral by  the   Rev.   Antony

Walker ; in which occurs the following passage :—

hen It pleased GOD to move K. James to that Excellent work, the
Translating of the Bible; when the Translators were to be chosen for
Cambridge, He was sent for Thither by Them, Therein employed, and
chosen One. Some University Men Thereat repining (It may be not
more able, yet more Ambitious to have had a Share in That Service) and
disdaining that It should be thought, that They needed any help from
the Country, Forgetting that Tully was the Same at Tusculane [that]
He was at Eome.   Sure I am, that part of the Apocrypha was allotted to

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