Our translation is made from the Latin, although the German has been compared wherever it is a real translation.
Two translations into English appeared in the sixteenth century: one printed by John Byddell before 1544, the translation being, according to Preserved Smith,[12] by John Tewkesbury; the other, prepared by James Bell and printed by Ralph Newbery and H. Bynneman, in 1579. Unfortunately, neither of these was accessible to the present translators. Modern translations, into English by Wace and Buchheim, and into German by Lemme, have been consulted.
W. A. LAMBERT.
South Bethlehem, PA.
FOOTNOTES
[1] Catholic Encyclopedia, x, 318.
[2] Church History, vi, 224 f.
[3] De consideratione, i, I.
[4] Martin Luther and the Reformation in Germany, London, 1889, p. 370.
[5] Luther, I, 351.