[440] As late as Jan. 1533 we find him writing: “Let us agitate for the use of Scripture in the mother-tongue, and for learning in the Universities.... I never altered a syllable of God’s Word myself, nor would, against my conscience” (Letters and Papers, etc. VI. p. 184).
[441] Cf. Tyndale’s answer to Sir Thomas More’s animadversions, Works (Day’s edition), p. 118.
[442] Cf. Pollard’s excellent and trenchant note, Cranmer and the English Reformation (New York and London, 1904), p. 110; Gairdner, The English Church in the Sixteenth Century, from the Accession of Henry VIII. to the Death of Mary (London, 1902), pp. 190-91.
[443] Letters and Papers, etc. XII. ii. 174.
[444] National Dictionary of Biography, art. “Rogers.”
[445] The excellence of Tyndale’s version is shown by the fact that many of his renderings have been adopted in the Revised Version.
[446] Dixon, History of the Church of England (London, 1878, etc.), ii. 77.
[447] Letters and Papers, etc. IX. p. 69.
[448] Ibid. IX. 119.
[449] Ibid. X. p. 234; cf. De Wette, Dr. Martin Luthers Briefe, etc. iv. p. 668.