The KJV was officially a revision of the 1568 Bishops' Bible. In 1644 the Geneva Bible was printed for the last time. During the reign of James I and into the reign of Charles I the use of the Geneva Bible steadily declined as the Authorized King James version became more widely used. Consequently, King James eventually introduced the King James Version, which drew largely from the Geneva Bible (minus the marginal notes that had enraged him). James I was particularly worried about marginal notes such as the one in Exod 1: 19, which allowed disobedience to Kings. These strongly Protestant notes so infuriated King James that he considered it "seditious" and made its ownership a felony. In addition to being the reason for its popularity, the marginal notes of the Geneva Bible were also the reason for its demise. William Bradford cited it in his book Of Plymouth Plantation. The Geneva Bible was even brought with the Pilgrims when they set sail on the Mayflower and was the generally accepted text among the Puritans. During the English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell issued a pamphlet containing excerpts from the Geneva Bible to his troops. Puritans John Bunyan and John Milton used the Geneva Bible, which is reflected in their writings. As a product of superior translation by the best Protestant scholars of its day, it became the Bible of choice for many of the greatest writers, thinkers and historical figures of its day. The Geneva Bible was the most widely read and influential English Bible of the l6th and 17th centuries, which was printed from 1560 to 1644 in over 200 different printings.
The Bible which they carried was the Geneva Bible. The Bible every Puritan family had in their home was not the KJV of 1609 or 1611.
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