Excerpt from An Apology of the Church of England That a version stamped with such high sanction, so vigorously and faithfully executed, so truly English in its style, and so universally known in fragments as preserved in the Defence of the Apology, should never have been republished as a whole, but that it should have given place to a host of successive translations, some of them un faithful, most of them deficient in taste and vigour, and all inferior in authority, is a fact in the his tory of literature for which it is difficult to ac count. Of the only edition (that of 1564) which ever appeared, and which is become extremely rare, a copy is preserved in the King's Library at the British 'museum, and' by that the Editor's transcript has. Been corrected. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.