A collection by the celebrated radical journalist, William Hone, the associate of George Cruikshank, of the translations by the dissenting schoolmaster, Jeremiah Jones; Hone had used a biblical style in his parodies, and collected these while on trial for them. Contains the Gospel of Mary, the Protevangelion, the Gospel of Infancy (and the shorter Gospel of Infancy attribued to Thomas), Christ and Abgar, the Gospel according to Nicodemus, the Epistle of Paul to the Laodiceans, the correspondence of Paul and Seneca, the Acts of Paul and Thecla, and the works of Clement (both I and II Clement), Barnabas, Ignatius, Polycarp, and Hermas.