Caption: "Leaf from a Matthew Bible, 1549 A.D., Imprinted at London by John Daye dwellynge at Aldersgate, and William Seres dwellynge in Peter colledge towarde Ludgate; The second version of the English Bible, edited by John Rogers, who wrote under the pseudonym of Thomas Matthew, either in fear of his life or to conceal the fact that a considerable part of this Bible was from the condemned translation of Tyndale. This edition is also known as the 'Becke Bible,' on account of the dedication by Edmund Becke; the 'Indecent Bible,' because of many objectionable notes; and the 'Wife Beating Bible,' from a note to beate the feare of God into her heade (Darlow and Moule 47)."
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