Coverdale Bible

Your correspondent Echo is quite right in declaring Mr. Granville Penn's statement, that Coverdale used Tyndale's *New Test*. in his Bible of 1535, to be quite wrong. Mr. Penn very probably took his statement from the Preface to D'Oyley and Mant's Bible, as published by the Christian Knowledge Society, which contains a very erroneous account of the earliest English versions. Tyndale's version of the New Testament was not incorporated in any version of the whole Bible till the publication of what is called Matthewe's Bible in 1537. For more particular statements confirmed by proofs, your corres…