The Lacuna Project

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Person

William Tyndale, translator

Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity

  • REL-2.3: A royal proclamation of June 1530 forbade having the New or Old Testament in English except persons appointed by the king and the bishops to correct the translation, forbade printing English Scripture without the diocesan's approval, and stated that its distribution "dependeth onely vpon the discretion of the superiours."

Exhibits naming this entity

  • Exhibit 498 1530. William Tyndale: William Tyndale, preface to Genesis, 'W. T. To the Reader' (Pentateuch, 1530)
  • Exhibit 499 20 May 1531. Stephen Vaughan (English envoy): Stephen Vaughan to Henry VIII, reporting Tyndale's terms (Barroughe, 20 May 1531)
  • Exhibit 530 1899. Dictionary of National Biography (vol. 57): Dictionary of National Biography, 'Tyndale, William'