Show Tyndale Martyr William Tyndale year six Welshman who was first to issue a printed edition of ot any part of ot Scrip ScrIp- Scriptures ScrIptures Scriptures tures in English was strangled and burned in Brussels because of it Tyndale a canon at Oxford believed the Testaments should be made accessible to the common people in translations into their own tongue i from the Latin and Greek of the I scholars Higher prelates held the common people were incapable of understanding and interpreting the Scriptures and that making the Bi Bi- Bible Bible Bi- Bi Bible ble available to anybody was pro pro- productive productive productive of heresy Unable to achieve his design in England Tyndale had his translation of the New Testa Testa- Testament Testament ment from irom Greek printed in Ant Ant- Antwerp Antwerp Antwerp and copies were smuggled in into in- in into into to England But church members Were forbidden to read them and agents of the Archbishop of Can Can- Canterbury Canterbury even bought up copies on the continent to destroy them Fi Ff- Finally n nally naIl a I 1 y ecclesiastical authorities caused Tyndale's arrest in Brus Brus- Brussels Brussels Brussels sels and saw to it that he and his aides were incinerated with all their works |