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John Day ( - )

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Consolidated catalogue of 1695: The Book of the Junior Proctor (MacGregor, ed.) [Addendum 15] Mr. John Day of the Parish of St. Ebbs Oxon; presented a Monstrous Cat to the Museum having one Head, two Bodies, two Tails & Eight Legs.
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) The whole Booke of Psalms collected into English Metre, by Tho. Sternhold, Jo. Hopkins, and others, conferred with the Hebrue, with apt Notes to sing them with all, &c. Fol. London, by John Day cum gratia & privilegio Regiæ Majestatis, Anno 1580. This is the first I have seen bound up with the Prayer-Book or Bible; it hath contents to each Psalm.
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) Mr. le Long in his Bibliotheca Sacra (Part 2d. pag. 310) mentions Fragmenta Biblica ex Veteri & Novo Testamento, Saxonice, a Gul. Lisle edita 4. Lond. 1638. The Title is, A Saxon Treatise concerning the Old and New Testament, written about the Time of K. Edgar, by Ælfricus Abbas, 1623, 4to. Of which I have also the other Edition 1638, entitled, Divers ancient Monuments in the Saxon Tongue, written seven hundred Years ago, shewing, that both the Old and New Testament, the Lord's Prayer, and the Creed, were then used in the Mother-Tongue, &c. whereunto is added a 2d Edition out of Ælfric's Homilies, of a Testimony of Antiquity touching the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of our Lord. Of which here is also the former Edition in 8vo. Printed by John Day, with an Attestation subscribed by Archbishop Math. Parker, and fourteen Bishops.