Breeches Bible

It is a rare thing for Bunyan to use a foreign word; but all pious persons in his time were familiar with, and generally used, the Puritan or Genevan Bible, vulgarly called the Breeches Bible, an extremely valuable book; in the marginal notes of which, on this passage is the following explanation, '"wilde gourdes," which the apoticaries call coloquintida, and is most vehement and dangerous in purging.'

Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02

There were also some chained books in the church, one of which was a copy of the Breeches Bible, published in

From John O'Groats to Land's End

Vinegar and a Breeches Bible, and some stone cannon-balls, mementoes of the French invasion of 1448.

Vanishing England

But it earned the nickname of the Breeches Bible because of its curious translation of Genesis

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