Our own English Bible : its translators and their work : the manuscript period . g Jerome and Grosseteste onthe province of the Church to interpret Scripture, offeredhim the choice between a public abjuration and stood for a few moments in motionless silence,and then agreed to abjure. Though a bishop, he foundthat the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. He wasbrought, in his episcopal habit, to St. Pauls, and in thepresence of twenty thousand people gave up his writingsto be burnt and then read his abjuration, in which herequired all persons as they tendered their souls andhis
Our own English Bible : its translators and their work : the manuscript period . g Jerome and Grosseteste onthe province of the Church to interpret Scripture, offeredhim the choice between a public abjuration and stood for a few moments in motionless silence,and then agreed to abjure. Though a bishop, he foundthat the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. He wasbrought, in his episcopal habit, to St. Pauls, and in thepresence of twenty thousand people gave up his writingsto be burnt and then read his abjuration, in which herequired all persons as they tendered their souls andhis, to deliver in all writings of his which they mighthave in their keeping, that the same might be openlyburnt as an example and terror to others. He was thensent to confinement in Thorney Abbey, where no one wasallowed to speak to him but the person who made his bedand fire, and where he was allowed no books except aMass Book, a Psalter, a Legendary; and a Bible. Of course it was a Latin Bible, but the English ones weremultiplied far and wide, and the light could not be alto-. 303 o ° lJ £ 2 o s a M ^ in o &^O a;o <! 03 o % 1-^a a O w H .13 . ?^ J ^ CO rv, CO M. «tngS wwaSmr pi<! W -< a oo HWoHo ^0<! <JH fe Ed ookh Hg i^2^Sgo gHl^« oSS^ hhWh gmo 1^o CO o P-, D OO w -, ^ tn ;Oa2 wg >ico «g^w^w OB03 Eh o WrH gs am ^a rto CmO S5 «O P3w>> w O . an iziMP3t5 oE-* Wt3 qW fO Wo a OM i^al coB IE-iP^co O Wgco ^saSaoofa H BO Hg P3HCj -P3sq oW CO a O^ i-hP Sh Sg 5w «a Po,P3 ^3 03?o^ & «!E-i B<o»^2co 3a55a Oj ^^ H?55 ai^0c»^^ 03^-1003 S2w2 o ago <! 301 JOHN WYCLIF ^ 30s gether hid. There still exist one hundred and seventycopies, more or less complete, and nearly half are of asmall size, such as could be used for household hundred and four pounds has been given lately for oneof these, written on vellum, but they were far more valuablein reality when first written.
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