. History of the Bassandyne Bible, the first printed in Scotland with notices of the early printers of Edinburgh. e of Tyndale were proscribed,—a pro-hibition which King Henry VIII. renewed in 1546,and at this time included Coverdales New Testa-ment along with the books of Tyndale. The GreatBible thus alone remained unforbidden, thoughsevere restrictions were laid upon its use, and it isbelieved that this was the cause of a great destruc-tion of the earlier Bibles and Testaments, whileeven where the books have been preserved, ina number of cases the titles have been taken out,so that the true
. History of the Bassandyne Bible, the first printed in Scotland with notices of the early printers of Edinburgh. e of Tyndale were proscribed,—a pro-hibition which King Henry VIII. renewed in 1546,and at this time included Coverdales New Testa-ment along with the books of Tyndale. The GreatBible thus alone remained unforbidden, thoughsevere restrictions were laid upon its use, and it isbelieved that this was the cause of a great destruc-tion of the earlier Bibles and Testaments, whileeven where the books have been preserved, ina number of cases the titles have been taken out,so that the true character of the volume mightescape the observation of a hasty and ignorantinquisitor.* King Henry VIII. died in January 1547, and wassucceeded by Edward VI., in whose short reign ofsix and a half years the restrictions were greatlyremoved, and many editions of the Bible were printed, * A copy of Miles Coverdales Bible, issued in 1535,was sold recently in London for ^120. No perfect copyof this Bible is known to exist, and the one sold on thisoccasion had the title, first few leaves, and map in THE CHAINED BIBLE. €r(inBfations of i^e (J$t6fe. 63 printed, but no new translation was followed the dark period of Queen Mary,when no Bible was permitted to be printed, and byvarious proclamations the public or open readingof the Scriptures was prohibited, and when thosewho had been earnestly striving to put Gods Wordinto the hands of the people had to yield up theirlives at the stake, or flee from their native landto foreign countries. How Queen Mary and herminions dealt with the Bible may be learned fromthe following edict issued by Bishop Bonner inOctober 1554 : Because some children of iniquity,given up to carnal desires and novelties, have bymany ways enterprised to banish the ancient mannerand order of the Church, and to bring in and establishsects and heresies; taking from thence the pictureof Christ, and many things besides instituted andobserved
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