William Tyndale and the Course of the English Reformation

Abstract

Inlocating and contextualizing William Tyndale in the English Refonnation, we encounter a paradox. Assumptions are made, and were made from the very beginning, about Tyndale's primary role in changing, or offering to change, the religion of England. Bishop John Stokesley called him 'arch-heretic', Sir Thomas More 'captain of our English heretics' Reviewing 'these bokes of heresyses' in 1532 ('there be so many made within these few yeares'), More wrote: 'Fyrst Tyndale's new testament, father of them all by reason of hys false translatying.'2 Tyndale himself, in the Prologue to his 1525 New Testament, described by David Daniell as 'the first English Protestant tract',3 expressed a heightened sense of his own pioneering role:

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