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Robert Fitz-Henry ( - )

References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

The Learned le Long, to the various Editions of the Bible, adds a Chapter of the Concordances, but this, as to the Latin, is before-mentioned, as Concordantiæ, or Index Biblicus, and some of the English: But I shall add others that I have which he wholly omits, as that of Robert Fitz-Henry, of which here are two Editions in 4to. 1578, and 1613, by Chr. and Rob. Barker, the former Printer to Qu. Elizabeth, the later to K. James. He also omits the noted Mr. John Downam's Concordance to the last Translation, allowed by his Majesty's special Privilege to be printed and bound with the Bible in all Volumes. Here are both the Folio Edition 1639, and that in 8vo. 1663. Also Mr. Sam. Newman's (who resided in these Parts of Yorkeshire) An. 1650, Fol. Lond of which the later Editions are commonly called the Cambridge Concordance: That of Rob. Wickens was printed at Oxford, 8vo. 1655.