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Authorised version of the bible

Speech by The Lord Judge, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales

05/10/2011

 

"This is a wonderful anniversary. It is 400 years since the publication of the Authorised Version of the Bible. And before I come to address the ferment of legal and constitutional issues which were being played out here, in the heart of Westminster, contemporaneously with the preparation of the AV not only at Oxford and Cambridge, but here in the Jerusalem Chamber, perhaps I may be allowed to repeat a point that I have made before, and to do so at the beginning of the first of these lectures..."