 In his "To the Reader" introduction he praises the accuracy of the existing Rheims translation, but adds that it “perhaps follow’d too scrupulously the Latin” and in the intervening years “many words and Expressions …..[have] become obsolete, and no longer in use.” The wording of the title page of his second edition published later the same year(illustration opposite) , makes it clear that Witham intended simply to update the Rheims Version, not produce a new translation.A recent study of sample citations from Matthew  shows several unique changes from the Rheims, e. g., "Adultery" for "fornication" (5