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When Tyndale made a point-by-point reply to More’s Dyaloge, he defended particularly the use of certain terms in his version of the New Testament. Also, he accused the Chancellor of seeking ‘honour, promotion, dignity, and money by help of our mitred monsters’. But his arguments against the Church veered too close to Luther’s to please Henry VIII, who had not yet broken with Rome. He sent word through Cromwell to Stephen Vaughan, then in Antwerp tracking down Tyndale for the king, that ‘his Highness liked nothing in the book, being filled with sedition, slanderous lies, and fantastical opinions’.
For biographical sketch, see pp. 188–90.
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Nugent, E.M. (1969). William Tyndale. In: Nugent, E.M. (eds) The Thought & Culture of the English Renaissance. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-2751-4_18
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