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XVII. (d) confutation of TFNDALE. J 91of, or some such other as wyser men can better deuise.Howbeit, vpo/z that I read late in the pistle that the kingeshighnes tra;zslated into english of his own, which hys gracemade in latine, amisweryng to the letter of Luther : my mind590 geueth me that his maiestie is of his blessed zele so myndedto mooue thys matter vnto /ke prelates of the clergie, amongwhom I haue perceiued some of the greatest and of the bestof their own mindes well inclinable thereto alredy, that weley people shal in this matter, ere lo//g time passe, except295 the faulte be founde in oure-selfe, be well and fully satisfyedand content.'In good fayth/ quod he, ' that will in mymynde be very well done. And now am I for my mindin al this matter fully co;/tent & satisfied.' Wei, quod I,than wil we to diner, & the remcnant wil we finishe afterpo diner. And therw/t/z went we to meate.H The end of the thirde boke.[(D) From ' T/ie Confutacion of Tymdales awiswere, madeAfino 1532 ;' Book III ;'Workes,' p. 448.]I shall shew you fyrst an example therof in the fyrstchapiter of the ghospell of saint Ihon, whych place Tyndallhath wronge translated also ; for what cause, the deuyll andhe knoweth. For Tyndall is not ignorant of that article,5 neither the greke nor the englishe, and maketh hymself asthough he translated the new testame/^t out of greke.Thesewordes be the wordes of the ghospell in that place, afterTyi^dalles translacion.^ Thys is the recorde of lohn, when the lewes sent