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William Tyndale (c. 1492–1536) was born at some time in the period 1484–1496 (Wikipedia; Loane gives 1490-95), possibly in one of the villages of Gloucestershire.

He was educated at Magdalen Hall (later Hertford College), Oxford University (BA, 1512; MA, 1515) and attended Cambridge between 1517 and 1521. He was a gifted linguist, over the years becoming fluent in French, Greek, Hebrew, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish, in addition to his native English.

In about 1521 Tyndale became chaplain to the house of Sir John Walsh at Little Sodbury and tutor to his children.

John Foxe (Book of Martyrs) describes an argument with a ‘learned’ but ‘blasphemous’ clergyman, who had asserted to Tyndale that, ‘We had better be without God’s laws than the Pope’s.’ Tyndale responded: ‘I defy the Pope, and all his laws; and if God spares my life, ere many years, I will cause the boy that driveth the plow to know more of the Scriptures than thou dost!’

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