1494: William Tyndale
William Tyndale, born around 1494 in Lollard Gloucestershire, translated the Bible into English during the Reformation and was martyred for it. He studied at Oxford…
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Arrival of Tyndale’s New Testament in England
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The books were smuggled into England and Scotland; they were condemned in October 1526 by Bishop Tunstall, who issued warnings to booksellers and had copies burned in public.
The beginning of the Gospel of John, from Tyndale’s 1525 translation of the New Testament.
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