The success of our first number of REFORMATION a year ago has greatly encouraged us.

It was with sadness that we received in the summer of 1996 the resignation of Professor Gerald Hammond as editor, through pressure of duties. The editorial team, however, is now complete: the associate editors for subjects, and the advisors, are listed on a previous page. They have been active in forwarding material, and for this second number we have had difficult choices to make from a rich crop of submissions. It was always our aim to be wide in our fields, roughly between 1450 and 1600; that breadth is reflected in this second number.

We are extremely fortunate in having secured as permanent editor, from REFORMATION 3, Andrew Hope of Christ Church Oxford. He is an Early Modern historian of distinction, and under him the journal will rise to great heights. With some assistance from him, this second number, however, had perforce to be put together, again, by me. Earlier versions of the papers by David Bagchi, Christopher Bradshaw, Stephen Buick, Brian Cummings, Anne O'Donnell, Morna Hooker, Orlaith O'Sullivan, Robert Peters, Kimberly Van Kampen, and Vivienne Westbrooke were given at various Tyndale Society conferences. The paper by Carsten Peter Thiede was the Third Lambeth Tyndale Lecture, in October 1996, and is reproduced by kind permission of His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury.

As we were going to press, the news reached us of the important discovery of a third copy of Tyndale's 1526 New Testament in Stuttgart. We were able, even so late in the day, to arrange for a brief account of its history, and importance, by Dr Mervyn Jannetta, head of Anglish Antiquarian collections at the British Library: and to reproduce the hitherto unknown title page.

I want to express my thanks to two organisations in particular. All copy-editing, design, and production of REFORMATION, from this number and in the future, is being done by Linda Hunter Adam and her students at the Humanities Publications Center at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. The combination there of very high standards indeed, and generosity, means a great deal to us.

The research library, The Scriptorium in Grand Haven, Michigan, has most generously agreed to donate an annual sum to REFORMATION. This farsighted kindness has assured the future of the journal. We are especially grateful.

— David Daniell