translated into English by the mother of Francis Bacon, whose edition
appeared in 1564. That is the translation given in this volume. The
book has since had six or seven other translators, but Lady Ann Bacon's
translation was that which presented it in Queen Elizabeth's time to
English readers, and it had the advantage of revision by the Queen's
Archbishop of Canterbury, her coadjutor in the establishment of the
Reformed Church of England, Matthew Parker. It was published, with no
name of author or translator on the title-page, as "An Apologie or
answere in defence of the Churche of Englande, with a briefe and plaine
declaration of the true Religion professed or used in the same." The
book was prefaced by a letter, "To the right honorable learned and
vertuous Ladie, A. B." [Ann Bacon] "M. C. wisheth from God grace,
honoure, and felicitie," where M. C. signifies Matthew Cantuar, Matthew
Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, whom Lady Ann Bacon had made her judge,
and whose judgment, the letter says, her book had singularly pleased.

Lady Ann Bacon was the second daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke, who was
tutor to King Edward VI. Sir Anthony gave to his five daughters a most
liberal education. His eldest daughter, Mildred, married Sir William
Cecil, afterwards Lord Burleigh, while Ann became the second wife of the
Lord Keeper, Sir Nicholas Bacon. Their father had made Mildred and Ann
two of the most learned women in England.

John Jewel was forty years old when he wrote the "Apology." He was born
in Devonshire in 1522, on the 24th of May, at the village of Buden, near
Ilfracombe. He studied at Oxford, where he became tutor and preacher,
graduated as B.D. in 1551, and was presented to the rectory of
Sunningwell. At the accession of Queen Mary he bowed to the royal
authority, but he was a warm friend and disciple of Peter Martyr, who had
come to England in 1547, at the invitation of Edward VI., to take the