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 1921 REVIEWS OF BOOKS 123 not a Lollard partisan and is perhaps more in sympathy with the orthodox than with the Lollard point of view ; she finds it hard to understand how an intellectual like Wycliffe can have inspired a genuine religious move- ment (p. 225). Her conclusions as to the origin of the fourteenth-century English Bible are the result not of any pro-Wycliffite prejudice but of the full and fair examination of the facts. An example may be given of the rewards which sometimes fall to the lot of the careful researcher. Cardinal Gasquet quoted from * a strange old contemporary tract ' printed by Foxe the statement ' that into a Parliament, in the time of King Richard II, there was put a Bible, by the assent of the archbishops and of the clergy, to annul the Bible at that time translated into English ', and he naturally inferred that the church had actually proposed that parliament should sanction an approved vernacular translation, strange as the pro- cedure might appear. Miss Deanesly has edited the tract, which is by Purvey, and the correct reading is * in to a parliment was put a bille. . . to anulle the Bibel '. The provincial council of Oxford in 1408 decreed that no one should make any translation of Holy Scripture on his own authority, and pro- hibited the reading of the Wycliffite versions or any future translation until that translation had been approved by the diocesan or a provincial council. Whether or not the suggestion of an authorized version was seriously meant, it was certainly not carried out, and as a substitute for the Bible Arundel about 1410 commended Nicholas Love's version of the Mirror of the Life of Christ and authorized its publication ' to the edifi- cation of the faithful and the confutation of all false heretics or Lollards '. The bishop of Wells in 1431 forbade any one to translate Holy Scripture or any part of it into English or to possess English translations of the scripture : and the reading or possession of English translations of the scripture appears among the charges in many Lollard trials in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Mr. Coulton, as general editor, invites corrections and announces that a full list of errata noted in each volume of the series will be included in succeeding volumes. The following errors have been noted. P. 69 n., Grosseteste died in 1253, not 1265 ; p. 103, objection might be made to the style ' chancellor of the university of Paris ' ; a sentence on p. 133 suggests that Bede described his own death in the Ecclesiastical History ; p. 135 n., and elsewhere, Miss Graham's Intellectual Influence of English Monasticism is printed in the Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, vol. xvii (new series), not vol. vii ; pp. 141 and 442, Grosseteste's sermon quoted by Purvey is sometimes called De Cura Pastorali and is extant in various manuscripts, e.g. Bodley 36 ; p. 163 n., Opus Minor ; p. 164, the only catalogue of a friary library in England so far discovered is that of the Austin friars of York ; p. 177, William of Nottingham died 1254, not 1291. The statements about Peter Aureoli on p. 178 are inaccurate and imply a misunderstanding of university affairs. Lecturing on the sentences was the duty of a B.D. When Aureoli was chosen by the general chapter of his order in 1316 to lecture on the sentences at Paris, it means that he became bachelor of theology ; he was promoted D.D. (by papal injunction) in 1318. P. 183,