Exhibit 500 ยท Letter
Thomas Cranmer to Thomas Cromwell, 4 August [1537], requesting the king's license for the Matthew Bible
a license that the same may be sold and redde of euery person, withoute danger of any acte, proclamacion, or ordinaunce hertofore graunted to the contrary
Cranmer sends Cromwell an English Bible of a new translation, dedicated to the king, and asks him to obtain the king's license that it may be sold and read by every person without danger of any earlier act, proclamation or ordinance, until the bishops produce a better translation.
- Source
- Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury
- Date
- 4 August 1537
- Quoted from
- Pollard, Records of the English Bible (1911), Record XXXIII A, pp. 214-15 (original in the Record Office; Letters and Papers Henry VIII xii pt 2, no. 434)
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://archive.org/details/recordsofenglish00polluoft
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Pollard (introduction, p. 16) says the 'Matthew' Bible was largely the work of Tyndale and Coverdale. Quote only the letter. Cranmer's words "till a day after domesday" are at Pollard Rec. XXXIII A. Pollard, intro p. 16, states the Matthew Bible was largely Tyndale's work.