It met the fury of the Church, all the copies which could be found being burned by Tonstall, Bishop of London, at St.Paul's Cross.

When Sir Thomas More asked how Tyndale subsisted abroad, he was pithily answered that Tyndale was supported by the Bishop of London, who sent over money to buy up his books.

To the fame of being a translator of the Scriptures, Tyndale adds that of martyrdom.

He was seized, at the instance of Henry VIII., in Antwerp, and condemned to death by the Emperor of Germany.

He was strangled in the year 1536, at Villefort, near Brussels, praying, just before his death, that the Lord would open the King of England's eyes.
The Old Testament portion of Tyndale's Bible is principally from the Septuagint, and has many corruptions and errors, which have been corrected by more modern translators.
MILES COVERDALE: CRANMER'S BIBLE .-- In 1535, Miles Coverdale, a co-laborer of Tyndale, published "Biblia; The Bible, that is, the Holy Scriptures of the Olde and New Testament, faithfully and truly translated out of the Douche and Latyn into Englishe: Zurich." In the next year, 1536, Coverdale issued another edition, which was dedicated to Henry VIII., who ordered a copy to be placed in every parish church in England.