THE DORE OF HOLY SCRIPTURE

In Herbert's edition of Ames's *Typographical Antiquities*, 1785, vol. i. p. 492., is noticed *The Dore of Holy Scripture*, 12mo., printed by John Gowghe in 1536; and, at p. 494., a reprint of the same work is mentioned in 1540, by the same printer, and a description of a copy given from one then in the possession of Herbert himself. In the preface prefixed by the printer, he calls the work "the prologue of the fyrste translatoure of the byble out of latyn in to Englyshe;" and at the end of the work is this note: —"Perused by doctor Taylor and doctor Barons, Master Ceton and Master Tornor." As…