The History Of The Lives Of Those Famous English Divines That Were Most Zealous In Promoting The Reformation Namely I John Wickliff Ii John Frith Iii Thomas Bilney Iv William Tindal V John Rogers Vi Lawrence Saunders Vii Bishop Hooper Viii Rowland Taylor Ix John Bradford X Bishop Ridley Xi Bishop Latimer Xii John Philpot Xiii Archb Cranmer Xiv John Fox Xv Bishop Jeuel Xvi Bernard Gilpin PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. ACCOUNT OF THE EXAMINATIONS, &c. OF JOHN ROGERS, AS WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. [from The Copy m The Lansdowne MSS. Vol. 389, Fol. 190 u. To 202.] Notb.-- It would not be practicable to direct attention to every minute difference that exists between the two versions, and the reader must be asked to compare them carefully, with the assurance that his labour will be amply repaid. The notes which the writer has been compelled to make are numerous, and yet he has confined himself to the most glaring discrepancies. To many others he has simply called attention by the use of italics. But besides these, there are repeated instances where one or more words have been inserted or omitted, and also where those in the MS. have been transposed, sometimes without materially affecting the sense, but often otherwise. It will be necessary to read the two versions simultaneously, sentence by sentence, in order to realise how mercilessly Foxe used the licence which he assumed. The common version which is given is that in the first edition of the Acts and Monuments, published in 1563, allowing the author, by a careful collation, the benefit of all proper corrections which he made in the editions subsequently revised by him before his death. No attention has, of course, been paid to the alterations and emendations made by more modern editors, for the reason, as before stated, that they have been made according to their respective concep X tions of what was proper, and not after an actual reference to the only real authority--the MS. itself. The MS. is now printed exactly as it is written, without correcting even its occasional tautology and bad grammar, presuming that the circumstances under which it was composed will sufficiently explain any occasional...