This Bible is in the Native American language of Algonquin and was printed in Cambridge, Massachusetts for the use of missionaries. The title page when translated reads: The Whole Holy His-Bible God, both Old Testament and also New Testament. This turned by the-servant-of-Christ, who is called John Eliot.

The copy at Winchester was presented by an American visitor to the College, Samuel Sewall. The diary of his journey to England includes an account of his visit on 25 February 1689:

Went to Winchester in the morning, and there met with my Letters from my dear wife and New England Friends, dated January last. Laus Deo. To a pair of Buckles for Cousin Sarah… £0.3.3. Spent in my Journy £0.3.7. View’d Winchester Colledge, the Chapel, Library, built in the midst of the Green within the Cloisters. Left my Indian Bible and Mr. Mather’s Letter there. Was shew’d also the Hall, which is above Stairs.

Soon after his return to America, Sewall became a judge at the Salem witchcraft trials and was the only one later to express his misgivings about the verdict.

Provenance: Given by Samuel Sewall, 1689

Location: Fellows’ Library