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5 unusual facts about George Joye


Blunham

George Joye was given the Rectory of Blunham In September 1549 by Sir Henry Grey of Flitton.

George Joye

Joye, as many of his contemporaries, was convinced that they lived in apocalyptic times and that the Return of Christ was not far away.

Merten de Keyser

A year later he issued Tyndale's Exposition of the fyrste Epistle of seynt Ihon, George Joye's translation of Isaiah, and Tyndale's translation of Jonah, the latter two apparently intended as a twin-publication.

In 1534 De Keyser printed the second, revised edition of Tyndale's New Testament as well as Joye's fresh edition of the Davids Psalter based on Zwingli's Latin Psalter, and Joye's translation of the book of Jeremiah.

Renhold

George Joye (born c. 1492)- Publisher of the first English Primer (1529) and the first English translation of Psalms (1530)


Henry Brinklow

Bishop Stephen Gardiner suspected that Mors was a pseudonym, but that it was the creation of George Joye.


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