The metrical preface to Rolle's Psalter reads: "This holy man in expounding, he followeth holy doctors, and in all his Englishing right after the Latin taketh course, and makes it compendious, short, good, and profitable."
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
I have never myself, since I became thoroughly acquainted with Lydgate's Englishing of Deguilevile's Pilgrimage of the Soul of Man, had any doubt that-in some way or other, direct or indirect, at tenth or twentieth hand perhaps-Bunyan was acquainted with it: but this is of no importance.
"The English Novel"
George Saintsbury
The example of Eden in collecting and Englishing travels and voyages was followed by several writers, of whom two, successively working and residing, the elder at Oxford, and the younger at Cambridge, made the two greatest collections of the kind in the language for interest of matter, if not for perfection of style.
"A History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature"
George Saintsbury