ABSTRACT
Burton knew the quarrel that had raged a full century before between Thomas More and William Tyndale-both of whom were, in the end, executed for their singular opinions, with More supporting (even instigating) the Church’s bonfire of Tyndale’s heretical vanities (1536) by which time King Henry VIII had already ordered More’s beheading (1535) for his stubborn Roman orthodoxies. One wonders how much, detail-obsessed as he actually was, of the two tragedies Burton knew.
