And  though  no  authorized  translation  of  the  Bilile  had  yet  been  allowed  by  Henry  VIII.,  Cranmer  and
the  other  Bishops  began  to  revise  Tyndale's  translation  in  1534,  and  encouraged  the  issue  of  books
containing  the  Epistles  and  Gospels  in  English,  of  which  many  editions  were  published  between  1538
and  the  printing  of  the  Prayer  Book '.  A  fresh  impulse  seems  thus  to  have  been  given  to  the  use  of  the
old  English  Prymers,  in  which  a  large  portion  of  the  Services  (including  the  Litany)  was  translated
into  the  vulgar  tongue,  and  also  a  third  of  the  Psalms,  and  to  which  in  later  times  the  Epistles  and
Gospels  were  added.  In  1530  also  had  been  published  an  admirable  coninientary  on  some  of  the  daily
services  (in  which  the  greater  part  of  them  is  translated  into  English),  under  the  title  of  "  The  Mirroure
of  our  Ladye,"  which  furnishes  a  strong  indication  of  the  endeavours  that  were  being  made  to  render
Divine  Service  intelligible  to  (hose  who  could  not  read  Ijatiu.
