Henry VIII1530
Tyndales books are banned by royal proclamation, Henry holds out the promise of an officially authorised English Bible being prepared by learned and catholic scholars
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Tyndales books are banned by royal proclamation, Henry holds out the promise of an officially authorised English Bible being prepared by learned and catholic scholars
Cromwell directs the clergy to provide "one book of the bible of the largest volume in English, and the same set up in some convenient place within the said church that ye have care of, whereas your parishioners may most commodiously resort to the same and read it
The first edition of The Great Bible is a run of 2,500 copies begun in Paris where the printed sheets are seized by the French authorities on grounds of heresy (since relations between England and France were somewhat troubled at this time), publication is completed in London in April 1539
The king asks his Archbishop to write a new preface for the Great Bible, an English translation of the Bible
The second edition of 1540, included a preface by Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, recommending the reading of the scriptures
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