SERMONS OR HOMILIES APPOINTED TO BE READ IN CHURCHES IN THE TIME OF THE LATE QUEEN ELIZABETH OF FAMOUS MEMORY. AND NOW THOUGHT FIT TO BE REPRINTED BY AUTHORITY A NEW EDITION. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS. MDCCCXXII. ADVERTISEMENT. IN the present edition of the Homilies, which is the fifth that has issued from the Clarendon press since the commencement of the nineteenth century, the text of the first part or book has been compared with four ancient editions, the various readings of which are exhibited at the bottom of the pages, and are distinguished by the letters A. B. C. D. A. is the first edition of the first book. It was printed in quarto by Richard Grafton in the year 1547, and is dated on the last day of July in the first year of king Edward the sixth. B. is the earliest edition in which the Homilies of the first book, being twelve in number, are divided into thirtytwo parts. It was printed in quarto by Grafton in the year 1549, and is dated in August of that year. The copies of both A. and B. employed in preparing the present edition, are preserved in the library of Corpus Christi College in this University. C. is an edition in quarto, printed by Richard Jugge and John Cawood in the year 1562. Two or more editions appear to have been printed by the same printers in the same year a; but the present editor has had no opportunity of comparing them, and of endeavouring to select the earliest. The copy actually used is preserved in the archiepiscopal library at Lambeth, and is bound up in the same volume with an edition of the second part, printed in 1563, which will be mentioned hereafter. D. is an edition of both parts of the Homilies in folio (the earliest of that size which the editor has seen) printed by John ⚫ One of these editions is in small octavo. There is a copy of it in the British Museum. |