Matthew's Bible

Bible, 1537. John Rogers, The Byble, which is all the holy Scripture: in whych are contayned the Olde and Newe Testament truly and purely translated into Englysh by Thomas Matthew. MDXXXVII. Antwerp (?), 1537.

Called "Matthew's Bible" after the pseudonym assumed by John Rogers. The New Testament is a revision of Tyndale 1535.

Literature

• Joseph Lemuel Chester, John Rogers: the compiler of the first authorised English Bible, the pioneer of the English Reformation, and its first martyr; embracing a genealogical account of his family, biographical sketches of some of his principal descendants, his own writings, etc. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861.