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Exhibit 499

Stephen Vaughan to Henry VIII, reporting Tyndale's terms (Barroughe, 20 May 1531)

Exhibit 499 ยท State letter

Stephen Vaughan to Henry VIII, reporting Tyndale's terms (Barroughe, 20 May 1531)

graunte only a bare text of the scriptures

Vaughan reports that Tyndale, shown Cromwell's offer of mercy if he would return, said that if the king would grant a bare text of the Scriptures to be put forth among his people, in a translation of whomever the king pleased, he would write no more and return to submit himself.

Source
Stephen Vaughan (English envoy)
Date
20 May 1531
Quoted from
Pollard, Records of the English Bible (1911), Record XXIII, pp. 170-71 (Cotton MS Galba B. x, 5; brackets in the printed text are Pollard's restorations)
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://archive.org/details/recordsofenglish00polluoft
Accessed
2026-11-09
Cited by
Findings citing this exhibit
Note
Vaughan's report of what Tyndale said; Tyndale's own letter to Vaughan is in State Papers v. 65.

Cited by

Finding REL-2.3
Primary record 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."