The first portion of the Scriptures ever printed in English, which was not Wycliff's Bible, but the New Testament printed by Tyndale at Cologne in 1525, does not appear in the catalogue. Of this a solitary fragment exists, in the Grenville library, the printing having been interrupted when it had reached sheet K, and all the rest of the impression destroyed. In the King's Library, in the Museum, are exhibited, side by side, two proclamations of Henry VIII., the first, 1530, prohibiting all translation of the Scriptures into the vulgar tongue: the second, 1541, enjoining that a copy of the English Bible shall be placed in every church in the kingdom. It would be difficult to point to a more dramatic illustration of the progress which may be made by a country in eleven years.
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From the May 1905 issue of The Christian Science Journal
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