He likewise translated all the Psalms of David, as also the Collects, Epistles and Gospels for the whole year, together with the Pater Noster and Creed; though there was then another Pater Noster and Creed used in the Church, sent into England by Adrian the Fourth, Pope of Rome, an Englishman, the Son of Robert Breakspeare of Abbots Langley in Hertfordshire, unto King Henry the Second; which (for variety sake) we shall give you as followeth: 

Pater Noster.

  Ure fader in hevene riche,
  Thi nom be haliid everliche,
  Thou bring us to thi michilblisce,
  Thi wil to wirche thu us wille,
  Als hit is in hevene ido
  Ever in erth ben hit also,
  That heli bred that lastyth ay,
  Thou sende hious this ilke day,
  Forgiv ous al that we hauith don,
  Als we forgiu och oder mon,
  He let ous falle in no founding,
  Ak seilde ous fro the foul thing.  Amen.

The Creed.

  I Beleeve in God fader almigty, shipper of heven and erth,
  And in Jhesus Crist his onle thi son vre Louerd,
  That is iuange thurch the hooli Ghost, bore of Mary Maiden,
  Tholede pine undyr Pounce Pilate, pitcht on rode tre,
      dead and yburiid. 
  Litcht into helle, the thridde day fro death arose,
  Steich into hevene, sit on his fader richt hand God Almichty,
  Then is cominde to deme the quikke and the dede,
  I beleve in ye hooli Gost,
  Alle hooli Chirche,
  None of alle hallouen forgivenis of sine,
  Fleiss uprising,
  Lif withuten end.  Amen.

When this Richard the Hermit died, we cannot find, but conjecture it to be about the middle of the Reign of King John, about the year 1208.

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JOSEPH of Exeter.

Joseph of Exeter was born at the City of Exeter in Devonshire, he was also sirnamed Iscanus, from the River Isk, now called Esk, which running by that City, gave it formerly the denomination of Isca.  This Joseph (faith my Author) was a Golden Poet in a Leaden Age, so terse and elegant were his Conceits and Expressions.  In his younger years he accompanied King Richard the First, in his Expedition into the Holy Land, by which means he had the better advantage to celebrate, as he did, the Acts of that warlike Prince, in a Poem, entituled Antiochea.  He also wrote six Books De Bello Trojano, in Heroick Verse, which, as the learned Cambden well observes, was no other then that Version of Dares Phyrgius into Latine Verse.  Yet so well was it excepted, that the Dutchmen not long since Printed it under the name of Cornelius Nepos, an Author who lived in the time of Tully, and wrote many excellent pieces in Poetry, but upon a strict view of all his Works, not any such doth appear amongst them; they therefore do this Joseph great wrong in depriving him the honour of his own Works.  He was afterwards, for his deserts, preferred to be Arch-bishop of Burdeaux, in the time of King John, about the year 1210.