"We have...fully finished...all the ...specially for deciding the doubts of these days...We translate this sacred Book...upon special consideration of the present time, state, and condition of our country, unto which divers things are either necessary, or profitable and medicinable now, that otherwise in the peace of the Church were neither much requisite, nor perchance wholly tolerable...Holy Church and the governors thereof...have neither of old nor of late, ever wholly condemned all vulgar versions of Scripture nor have at any time generally forbidden the faithful to read the same: yet they have not by public authority prescribed, commanded, or authentically ever recommended any such interpretation to be indifferently used of all men."