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Henry Middleton - printer in London 1567-87.
son of Willam Middleton, pritner 1541-7.

The Old T. portion of this translation from
the Hebrew by J. Tremullrius + Francis Junius
had 1st appeared in Frankfort in 4 parts
between 1575-79. It was printed in
England for the 1st time in 1579-80
adding Tremellius translation of the N.T.
from Syriac which had 1st appeared
in Geneva in 1569.A 2nd English ed. in
1581 substituted Beza's N.T. from
the Geek for the Syrinc derivation. The
3rd English ed. of 1584 contained both
versions of the N.T.
HEHL #221975 I. Partis
Genesis page 1. Numeri p. 145
Exodus page 64. Deuteronomium p. 187
Leviticus page 114.

The academic world was the last bastion of
Latin in England, in that the Church of
England ceased to use this language
to any significant extent by the 1540's.