This book gave considerable uneasiness to Cardinal Wolsey, who was personally attacked in it, and sought by every means to discover and punish its author. It was prohibited by a proclamation issued in June, 1530. An account of Simon Fish, "a zealous man for the reformation of abuses in the church" will be found in Wood's Athenæ Oxonienses and Tanner's Biblioth. Britan. 2. The Newe Testament, in Englysshe, (translated by William Tyndale.) Assumed to have been printed at Cologne in the Office of Peter Quentell and finished at Worms by Peter Schoeffer, 1525. It was inhibited by order of Bishop Tonstall and Archbishop Wareham and burnt. An imperfect copy is in the Grenville collection, British Museum. 3. The Parable of the wicked Mammon. (By William Tyndale), 1528. The Obedyence of a Christen Man, and how Christen Rulers ought to governe. (By the same), 1528. These books were prohibited by the before mentioned proclamation of June, 1530. 4. The Revelation of Antichrist. No date. This book was prohibited by the before mentioned proclamation of June, 1530. 5. The Summary of Scripture. No date. This book was prohibited by the before mentioned proclamation of June, 1530. It is a translation by Simon Fish from the German. 6. An exposition upon the fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of Matthew. No publisher or date. Printed for Tyndale while he was in Holland in 1537 by R. Grafton, for which he was thrown into the Fleet for six weeks. 7. The historie of Italie, a boke excedyng profitable to be redde; because it intreateth of the astate of many and divers common weales, how thei have ben and now be governed, 1549. London. This book was suppressed and burnt by the Common Hangman, but a reprint was subsequently made in 1561. The original edition is very rare. "W. Thomas," says Holinshed, "who wrote the History of Italie and other thinges verie eloquentlie, was hanged and quartered at Tiburne, 18 May, 1554, for conspiring to murther Queen Mary." He had been Tutor to Edward VI, and some of his letters are preserved by Strype. 8. The Union of the two noble and illustre famelies of Lancastre and Yorke, beyng long in continuall discension for the Crowne of this noble realme, with all the actes done in both the tymes of the Princes, both of the one linage and of the other, beginnyng at the tyme of Kyng Henry the fowerth, the first aucthor of this devision, and so successively proceading to ye reigne of the high and prudent Prince, Kyng Henry the eyght, the indubitate flower and very heire of both the saied linages. Whereunto is added to every Kyng a severall table. (By Edward Halle), 1550. This book was prohibited by a proclamation dated June 13, 1555. (Foxe's Acts and Monuments, vol. 7, p. 127, ed. 1847.) 9. A declaration of the succession of the Crown Imperial of England. By John Hales. London, 1563.