ABSTRACT
William Tyndale was an Oxford scholar, one of the men of distinction contemporary with the humanists around Thomas More - Colet, Bishop Tunstall and others, including Erasmus - but always completely outside that circle. In 1535 Tyndale, who had always been in danger, even in the comparative safety of the English House in Antwerp, was tricked into arrest, and imprisoned for 16 months in a cell in Vilvoorde Castle outside Brussels. His Bible translations were known to be his even in the later years of Henry Phillips, and they were frequently reprinted under Edward, on their own, and as the major part of complete Bibles. John Foxe gives one short sentence to cover Tyndale's time in London, and then he is in Germany and then Antwerp. Foxe is about half-way through his 1563 account of Tyndale, who is described as living with Thomas Poyntz in the English House at Antwerp.
