[64] In the reign of Charles II. a silly report was set afloat that Field, the printer of what is known as the Pearl Bible of 1653, had received a present of £1,500 from the Independents to introduce this corruption into the text. See D’ISRAELI’S _Curiosities of Literature_, Art. Pearl Bible. Mr. D’Israeli must have been ignorant of the fact that this error occurs in Bibles printed fifteen years earlier than the Pearl Bible, and by the University Press, Cambridge. [65] This may possibly have been a change deliberately made by the editor, who either had a different Greek text or followed the Vulgate; but even in that case it would be a very awkward way of rendering the text before him. [66] This he has done, professedly, in the attempt to represent the version of 1611, “so far as may be, in the precise shape that it would have assumed if its venerable translators had shown themselves more exempt than they were from the failings incident to human infirmity; or if the same severe accuracy which is now demanded in carrying so important a volume through the press had been deemed requisite, or was at all usual in their age.”--Introduction to Cambridge Paragraph Bible, p. i. [67] The LXX. and Vulgate are here right; so also Wycliffe, who, translating from the Latin, renders, “Seven trompes, whos vse is in the iubile.” [68] Wycliffe, “Stronge men seseden in Yrael.” [69] Here again the LXX., Vulgate, and Wycliffe are right. Wycliffe renders, “of whom shulen be alle the best thingis of Yrael.” [70] The LXX., Vulgate, Wycliffe, the Great Bible, the Genevan, and the Bishops’, all give the true sense. [71] In their rendering of verse 3 the Revisers of 1611 have followed the Genevan. Of the older versions, the Great Bible best renders this verse, “All my delyte is upon the saynctes that are in the earth, and upon suche as excell in vertue.” [72] The Vulgate leads the way in this error. [73] Tyndale, the Great Bible, and the Genevan render correctly. [74] So the Rheims, “Why do you also trangresse the commaundement of God for your tradition?” [75] So Wycliffe, “for they ben feithful and loued, the whiche ben parceners of benefice;” and the Rheims, “because they be faithful and beloued which are partakers of the benefite.” [76] Here all the older versions go wrong. [77] The first four books of the _Annals of Tacitus_ are found only in a single MS. (the Medicean) of the eleventh century. The nine books of the _Letters of Pliny the Younger_ are found complete in one MS. only, of the tenth century; this also is in the Medicean Library. [78] From the Latin _uncia_, an inch.