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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt:...of the Church. The words of Coverdale may here be quoted, as his memory must ever be Miss Strickland's "Life of Katharine Parr." affectionately linked with our Church and Castle; who dead yet speaks, and commends to our love, what Tyndal had boasted he would soon put within the reach of every plough-boy in Gloucestershire, namely, the Holy Scriptures in our mother tongue: "As for the commendation of God's Holy Scripture," he wrote, "I would fain magnify it as it is worthy, but I am far insufficient thereto, and therefore I thought it better for me to hold ray tongue than with few words to pr.iise" or commend it; exhorting thee, most dear reader, so to love it, so to cleave unto it, and so to follow it in thy daily conversation, that other men, seeing thy good works, and the fruits of the Holy Ghost in thee, may praise the Father of Heaven, and give this word a good report, for to live after the law of God and to lead a virtuous conversation, is the greatest praise that thou canst give unto his doctrine." With such like holy words must he, as chaplain, often have exhorted in his daily sermon, not only the queen and her retinue, but the youthful Lady Jane Grey, who was then an inmate of the Castle, placed under the immediate care of Queen Katherine Parr, and with whom she resided till her death. It was a cherished wish of the queen's to see this studious, thoughtful girl united one day to the scholarly young king who was then upon the throne. It was, therefore, with almost more than maternal solicitude that she ever strove to influence her for good, both in her studies and by thus bringing her into contact with the wisest and best of the Reformed Church. The Admiral's distaste to the pious regulations of the Castle, however,...