England didn't burn Tyndale and his translation was not the crime he burned for

Why Did England Burn the Man Who Wrote Their Bible?
Ryan M Reeves | 3 June 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boHkVM5id7E

It so happens, the Franco-Flemish Inquisitor James Latomus had no beef with his translation work as such.

He was arrested for heresy and tried on the interpretation of Romans 3.

With Ephesians 2:8—9, one could favour Tyndale's passage, but adding verse 10 tips the scales to the favour of Latomus.

They agreed, no works prior to justification on part of the one in sin, can merit justification. They disagreed on whether someone getting (as an adult, after sin or infidelity) justified was or wasn't necessarily signing up for future good works, under pain of there being no justification otherwise.

So, I've heard Roman Catholics argue, he actually was encouraged to continue translating. That may be overdoing it, but it's at least not impossible.

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To the title:

"Why Did England Burn the Man Who Wrote Their Bible?"

England didn't burn him, Holy Roman Empire did. And not for Bible translation, but for free grace theology.

Even if Tyndale's translation remained popular, it was overshadowed by Geneva Bible, Bishops' Bible and King James.

Matthew 6:7, in these three but not in Tyndale, nor obviously in Douay Rheims, is mistranslated with "use vain repetitions" for "battologein" ...