Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . edition of anEnglish New Testament. How a Roman spy informed againsthim, how he fled to Worms with his par-tially printed sheets, how, in spite ofWolseys lynx-eyed inquisitors, two edi- tions, one of quarto size with notes, andone of octavo size without notes, weresmuggled into England in the earlymonths of 1526, we have no space to tellhere. Packed away in sacks of flour, incloth bales, in any hiding-place whichconveniently suggested itself, they con-trived to reach their destination. Butso vigorous was the search for them t
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . edition of anEnglish New Testament. How a Roman spy informed againsthim, how he fled to Worms with his par-tially printed sheets, how, in spite ofWolseys lynx-eyed inquisitors, two edi- tions, one of quarto size with notes, andone of octavo size without notes, weresmuggled into England in the earlymonths of 1526, we have no space to tellhere. Packed away in sacks of flour, incloth bales, in any hiding-place whichconveniently suggested itself, they con-trived to reach their destination. Butso vigorous was the search for them thatof the many thousands which were dis-tributed, there are now but three solitarysurvivors. Of the quarto we have butone mutilated fragment; of the octavo,only two copies. Tyndale did not live to complete his 524 HARPERS MONTHLY MAGAZINE. translation. By 1536 he had finished andpublished the whole of the New Testa-ment, the Pentateuch, and the Book ofJonah. In addition to this he had byhim, unpublished and in manuscript, nineadditional books of the Old Testament. Miles CoverdaleAfter an engraving by Thomas Trotter (Joshua to II. Chronicles, inclusive).In May, 1535, he was arrested and throwninto prison; and on October 6, 1536, hewas strangled, and his body burnt at thestake. A year before his martyrdom, andwhile he was in Vilvorde prison, a com-plete English Bible, by Miles Coverdale,who became a bishop under Edward VI.,was published either at Antwerp or atZurich. The date was October, 1535. Itsorigin is shrouded in uncertainty. Weknow, however, that Coverdale was chief-ly resident on the Continent for someyears before 1535, and we have his owncandid admission chat translation withhim was no spontaneous impulse, but that he took it up at the urgent instance ofpatrons, and because Tyndales careerwas plainly coming to an end. The pa-trons were Thomas Cromwell and SirThomas More. When Cromwell (whoseProtestantism savored somewhat stronglyof the cult of the rising sun)foresaw that
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