Notes: [1] The imprint lists only Edward Whitchurch, but E. J. Devereux has argued that Richard Grafton and Nicholas Hill were involved as well. See E. J. Devereux, “Sixteenth-Century Translations of Erasmus’ New Testament Commentaries in English,” in The Collected Works of Erasmus: Paraphrases on Romans and Galations, vol. 42 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984), xxxii. [2] The name “Abraham David” is inscribed in the margin of the text. The hand suggests an early date, potentially before the text was acquired by the Shirley family. [3] The bookplate of Robert Shirley (1673–1699), the son of Robert Shirley, 1st Earl of Ferrers, appears on the front pastedown of the first volume and back of the title page of the second volume. Shirley was an aspiring politician when he died of smallpox at the age of 25. [4] The bookplate of Washington Sewallis Shirley (1822–1859), 9th Earl of Ferrers, appears on the front pastedown of the second volume. [5] The bookplate of Boise Penrose (1902–1976), the son of US Senator Boise Penrose, appears on the front pastedown of the first volume and front free endpaper of the second volume. Penrose was a historian, politician, and book collector interested in the history of England and its activities in the East Indies. Sotheby’s auctioned a portion of his expansive library in 1971, but these two volumes were not part of that auction. Penrose’s bookplate indicates he acquired the two volumes from the Old East India House Library, but it is not clear when the Old East India House would have possessed these books. Washington Sewallis Shirley died in 1859, the year after the British government seized control of the New East India House (the replacement for the Old East India House) and only two years before the New East India House was demolished. Shirley may have sold these volumes to the East India Company years earlier while he was still alive, but it has not been possible to confirm this.