English College at Douai and Rheims, Douay Rheims Bible — Preface (1582/1610)
“ Which translation we do not for all that publish,upon erroneous opinion 1. of neccessitie, that the holy Scriptures should always be in our mother tongue, or 2. that they ought, or were ordained by God, to be read indifferently of all, or 3. could be easily understood of every one that readeth or heareth them in a known language; or 4. that toguct, notal>- thcy vcrc not often, through man's malice or inKrnfitic,pcrniciousand muchhuixful to folurcly ncc - many ”
