was by the Parliament sent unto the Tower, and afterwards beheaded;
insomuch that I could never since hear anything touching the
printing of my book.

"The House of Commons having then notice that I had translated the
aforesaid book, they sent for me, and did appoint a Committee to see
it and the translation, and diligently to make inquiry whether the
translation did agree with the original or no; whereupon they
desired me to bring the same before them, sitting then in the
Treasury Chamber. And Sir Edward Dering, being Chairman, said unto
me that he was acquainted with a learned minister beneficed in
Essex, who had lived long in England, but was born in High Germany,
in the Palatinate, named Mr. Paul Amiraut, whom the Committee
sending for, desired him to take both the original and my
translation into his custody, and diligently to compare them
together, and to make report unto the said Committee whether he
found that I had rightly and truly translated it according to the
original: which report he made accordingly, and they, being
satisfied therein, referred it to two of the Assembly, Mr. Charles
Herle and Mr. Edward Corbet, desiring them diligently to peruse the
same, and to make report unto them if they thought it fitting to be
printed and published.

"Whereupon they made report, dated the 10th of November, 1646, that
they found it to be an excellent Divine Work, worthy the light and
publishing, especially in regard that Luther, in the said
Discourses, did revoke his opinion, which he formerly held, touching
Consubstantiation in the Sacrament. Whereupon the House of Commons,
the 24th of February, 1646, did give order for the printing thereof.