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William Tynedale lived in the colourful and cruel days of Henry VIII, when men were burned, racked and maimed for lesser crimes than that of smuggling the Bible into England. When Tynedale set out to provide the first printed New Testament in English, he was forced to do so in defiance of the king, the pope and almost every person in authority. Compelled to flee from his homeland, he continued with his work of translating the Scriptures whilst slipping from city to city in Germany, Holland, and Belgium in an attempt to avoid the agents who were sent from England to arrest him.
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