| |
| | Memoirs of the Puritans: Miles Coverdale |
 | | MILES COVERDALE, D. THIS highly distinguished puritan divine was born in Yorkshire 1486, and had his education at the university of Cambridge, where be became an Augustine monk. |
 | | Coverdale, soon after this, finding himself in danger of the fire, fled beyond seas, and lived for some time in Holland, where he chiefly applied himself to the translation of the scriptures. |
 | | Coverdale, Goodman, Gilby, Whittingham, Samson, Cole, Knox, Badleigh, and Pullam, all celebrated puritans, during their exile at this time, made a new translation of the bible, which went under the appellation of the Geneva bible. |
| www.apuritansmind.com /PuritanArticles/MemoirsPuritans/MemoirsPuritansMilesCoverdale.htm (1080 words) |
|