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I am not sure where Alice was born. Thomas Gascoigne said in his 1635deposition in Accomack Co. VA that he was transporting from Bermuda.I found a record for him there in 1627. I know that he was still inVA for the 1624/1625 Muster in Accomack Co. Did he really go back toEngland is the question." [Transcribed 24 October 2008, SLJuhl,Compiler & Family Genealogist; sljuhl1234@yahoo.com]

John married Elizabeth before 1635 in Lancaster, Virginia. was born in 1610 in Suffolkshire, England; died after 1669 in Lancaster County, Virginia; was buried after 1669. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John Taylor, Jr. was born in 1627 in Or Born 1631, Hadleigh, Suffolkshire, England; was christened on 12 Sep 1627 in Wortherby, Flint, Wales; died on 5 Apr 1702 in Wicomico Parish, Northumberland County, Virginia; was buried in 1702.
2. Richard Taylor and died.
3. Robert Taylor and died.
4. William Taylor and died.
5. James Taylor and died.
6. Thomas Taylor and died.
7. Elizabeth Taylor and died.

Thomas married Margaret Swinderby on 9 Oct 1599 in Hadley, Middlesex, London, England. Margaret was born in 1578 in Copenhagen, Denmark; died in Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The name is also Swinderly/Swinderby.
Please refer to the book for further information on this family.Joseph Washington McCoy 1766-1840 of Coshocton County, Ohio HisDescendants and Related Families, by B. Isabel Lockard, 1935,copyright April 2002, Closson Press of PA.

Thomas married Elizabeth Burwell before 1572 in Hadley, Middlesex, London, England. Elizabeth died in After 2 Years Of Marriage; England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Rowland was burned at the stake during the reign of Bloody Mary.
Per J.C. Ryle, c.1890 A.D.;http://www.williamtyndale.com/0reformersburned.htm; From the Book -Five English Reformers; F r i e n d s o f W i l l i a m T y n d al e, H i s t o r y o f t h e E n g l i s h
B i b l e
"Indeed, the faggots never ceased to blaze whilst Mary was alive, andfive martyrs were burnt in Canterbury only a week before her death.Out of these 288 sufferers, be it remembered, one was an archbishop,four were bishops, twenty~ne were clergymen, fifty-five were women,and four were children. It is a broad fact that these 288 suffererswere not put to death for any offence against property or person. Theywere not rebels against the Queen's authority, caught red-handed inarms. They were not thieves, or murderers, or drunkards, orunbelievers, or men and women of immoral lives. On the contrary, theywere, with barely an exception, some of the holiest, purest, and bestChristians in England, and several of them the most learned men oftheir day."
"(3) The third leading Reformer who suffered in Mary's reign wasRowland Taylor, Rector of Hadleigh, in Suffolk. He was burned onAldham Common, close to his own parish, the same day that Hooper diedat Gloucester, on Saturday, the 9th February, 1555. Rowland Taylor isone of whom we know little, except that he was a great friend ofCranmer, and a doctor of divinity and canon law. But that he was a manof high standing among the Reformers is evident, from his being rankedby his enemies with Hooper, Rogers, and Bradford; and that he was anexceedingly able and ready divine is clear from his examination,recorded by Foxe. Indeed, there is hardly any of the sufferers aboutwhom the old Martyrologist has gathered together so many touching andstriking things. One might think he was a personal friend.
Striking was the reply which he made to his friends at Hadleigh, whourged him to flee, as he might have done, when he was first summonedto appear in London before Gardiner: -What will ye have me to do?. Iam old, and have already lived too long to see these terrible and mostwicked days. Fly you, and do as your conscience leadeth you. I amfully determined, with God's grace, to go to this Bishop and tell himto his beard that he doth naught. I believe before God that I shallnever be able to do for my God such good service as I may do now.''Foxe's"Acts and Monuments," vol. iii. p.138.
Striking were the replies which he made to Gardiner and his otherexaminers. None spoke more pithily, weightily, and powerfully than didthis Suffolk incumbent.
Striking and deeply affecting was his last testament and legacy ofadvice to his wife, his family, and parishioners, though far too longto be inserted here, excepting the last sentence : -"For God's sakebeware of Popery: for though it appear to have in it unity, yet thesame is vanity and Antichristianity, and not in Christ's faith andverity."-Foxe's"Acts and Monuments," vol. iii.p.144.
He was sent down from London to Hadleigh, to his great delight, to beburned before the eyes of his parishioners. When he got within twomiles of Hadleigh, the Sheriff of Suffolk asked him how he felt. "Godbe praised, Master Sheriff," was his reply, "never better. For now Iam almost at home. I lack but just two stiles to go over, and I ameven at my Father's house."
As he rode through the streets of the little town of Hadleigh, hefound them lined with crowds of his parishioners, who had heard of hisapproach, and came out of their houses to greet him with many tearsand lamentations. To them he only made one constant address, "I havepreached to you God's Word and truth, t and am come this day to sealit with my blood."
On coming to Aldham Common, where he was to suffer, they told himwhere he was. Then he said,-" Thank God, I am even at home."
When he was stripped to his shirt and ready for the stake, he said,with a loud voice,-" Good people, I have taught you nothing but God'sHoly Word, and those lessons that I have taken out of the Bible; and Iam come hither to seal it with my blood." He would probably have saidmore, but, like all the other martyrs, he was strictly forbidden tospeak, and even now was struck vio- lently on the head for sayingthese few words. He then knelt down and prayed, a poor woman of theparish insisting, in spite of every effort to prevent her, in kneelingdown with him. After this, he was chained to the stake, and repeatingthe 51st Psalm, and crying to God, "Merciful Father, for JesusChrist's sake, receive my soul into Thy hands," stood quietly amidstthe flames without crying or moving, till one of the guards dashed outhis brains with a halberd. And so this good old Suffolk incumbentpassed away."
"3) Hear what Rowland Taylor said: The second cause why I wascondemned as a heretic was that I denied transubstantiation, andconcomitation, two juggling words whereby the Papists believe thatChrist's natural body is made of bread, and the Godhead by and by tobe joined thereto, so that immediately after the words ofconsecration, there is no more bread and wine in the sacrament, butthe substance only of the body and blood of Christ."
"Because I denied the aforesaid Papistical doctrine (yea, ratherplain, wicked idolatry, blasphemy, and heresy) I urn judged aheretic."-Foxe in loco, vol. iii. p.141.
And therefore he was condemned and burned."
[Transcribed 08 May 2007, SLJuhl, compiler]

Books written referring to Rowland Taylor
Fox's (or Foxe's) Book of Martyrs. Many editions available.
The LIFE OF ROWLAND TAYLOR, BY Rev William James Brown.
The Impact of the English Reformation 1500-1640 (Arnold Readers inHistory)
by Peter Marshall (see page 45).
Daniel Defoe: The Life and Strange, Surprising Adventures
by Richard West (Page 300)
The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness Britain: Eyewitness Accounts of GreatHistorical Moments from 55 B.C. to A.D. 2000
by Jon E. Lewis
Bloody Mary's Martyrs: The Story of England's Terror
by Jasper Ridley (Page 61)
The Lollards, by Richard Rex (Page 124)

Please refer to the following book for further information on thisfamily; Joseph Washington McCoy 1766-1840 of Coshocton County, OhioHis Descendants and Related Families, by B. Isabel Lockard, 1935,copyright April 2002, Closson Press of PA.

Rowland married Margaret Tyndale in 1534 in Rothbury, Northumberland, England. Margaret (daughter of John Tyndale) was born in 1510 in England; died in Suffolkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Margaret's Uncle or grandfather William Tyndale translated the firstHoly Bible into English in England and he too was strangled and burnedat the stake on the authority of the Holy Roman Emperor on 06 Oct.1536.

"The Friends Of William Tyndale
Web Site: http://www.williamtyndale.com/0links.htm
?We have now to enter into the story of the good martyr of God,William
Tyndale; as he was a special organ of the Lord appointed,
and as God's mattock to shake the inward roots and foundation of thepope's
proud prelacy, so the great prince of darkness, with his impious imps,
having a special malice against him, left no way unsought how craftily
to entrap him, and falsely to betray him, and maliciously to spill his
life, as by the process of his story here following may appear. 
William Tyndale, the faithful minister of Christ, was born about the
borders of Wales, and brought up from a child in the University ofOxford,
where he, by long continuance, increased as well in the knowledge oftongues,
and other liberal arts, as especially in the knowledge of theScriptures,
whereunto his mind was singularly addicted; insomuch that he, lyingthen
in Magdalen Hall, read privily to certain students and fellows ofMagdalen
College some parcel of divinity; instructing them in the knowledge and
truth of the Scriptures. His manners and conversation beingcorrespondent
to the same, were such that all they that knew him reputed him to be a
man of most virtuous disposition, and of life unspotted. 
Thus he, in the University of Oxford, increasing more and more inlearning,
and proceeding in degrees of the schools, spying his time, removedfrom
thence to the University of Cambridge, where he likewise made hisabode
a certain space. Being now further ripened in the knowledge of God'sWord,
leaving that university, he resorted to one Master Welch, a knight ofGloucestershire,
and was there schoolmaster to his children, and in good favor with his
master. As this gentleman kept a good ordinary commonly at his table,there
resorted to him many times sundry abbots, deans, archdeacons, withdivers
other doctors, and great beneficed men; who there, together withMaster
Tyndale siting at the same table, did use many times to entercommunication,
and talk of learned men, as of Luther and of Erasmus; also of diversother
controversies and questions upon the Scripture. 
Then Master Tyndale, as he was learned and well practiced in God'smatters,
spared not to show unto them simply and plainly his judgment, and when
they at any time did vary from Tyndale in opinions, he would show them
in the Book, and lay plainly before them the open and manifest placesof
the Scriptures, to confute their errors, and confirm his sayings. Andthus
continued they for a certain season, reasoning and contending together
divers times, until at length they waxed weary, and bare a secretgrudge
in their hearts against him. 
As this grew on, the priests of the country, clustering together,began
to grudge and storm against Tyndale, railing against him in alehousesand
other places, affirming that his sayings were heresy; and accused himsecretly
to the chancellor, and others of the bishop's officers. 
It followed not long after this that there was a sitting of thebishop's
chancellor appointed, and warning was given to the priests to appear,amongst
whom Master Tyndale was also warned to be there. And whether he hadany
misdoubt by their threatenings, or knowledge given him that they would
lay some things to his charge, it is uncertain; but certain this is(as
he himself declared), that he doubted their privy accusations; so that
he by the way, in going thitherwards, cried in his mind heartily toGod,
to give him strength fast to stand in the truth of His Word. 
When the time came for his appearance before the chancellor, hethreatened
him grievously, reviling and rating him as though he had been a dog,and
laid to his charge many things whereof no accuser could be broughtforth,
notwithstanding that the priests of the country were there present.Thus
Master Tyndale, escaping out of their hands, departed home, andreturned
to his master again. 
There dwelt not far off a certain doctor, that he been chancellor to
a bishop, who had been of old, familiar acquaintance with MasterTyndale,
and favored him well; unto whom Master Tyndale went and opened hismind
upon divers questions of the Scripture: for to him he durst be bold to
disclose his heart. Unto whom the doctor said, "Do you not know thatthe
pope is very Antichrist, whom the Scripture speaketh of? But bewarewhat
you say; for if you shall be perceived to be of that opinion, it willcost
you your life." 
Not long after, Master Tyndale happened to be in the company of acertain
divine, recounted for a learned man, and, in communing and disputingwith
him, he drove him to that issue, that the said great doctor burst outinto
these blasphemous words, "We were better to be without God's laws than
the pope's." Master Tyndale, hearing this, full of godly zeal, and not
bearing that blasphemous saying, replied, "I defy the pope, and allhis
laws;" and added, "If God spared him life, ere many years he wouldcause
a boy that driveth the plough to know more of the Scripture than hedid." 
The grudge of the priests increasing still more and more againstTyndale,
they never ceased barking and rating at him, and laid many thingssorely
to his charge, saying that he was a heretic. Being so molested andvexed,
he was constrained to leave that country, and to seek another place;and
so coming to Master Welch, he desired him, of his good will, that hemight
depart from him, saying: "Sir, I perceive that I shall not be suffered
to tarry long here in this country, neither shall you be able, thoughyou
would, to keep me out of the hands of the spirituality; whatdispleasure
might grow to you by keeping me, God knoweth; for the which I shouldbe
right sorry." 
So that in fine, Master Tyndale, with the good will of his master,departed,
and eftsoons came up to London, and there preached a while, as he haddone
in the country. 
Bethinking himself of Cuthbert Tonstal, then bishop of London, andespecially
of the great commendation of Erasmus, who, in his annotations, soextolleth
the said Tonstal for his learning, Tyndale thus cast with himself,that
if he might attain unto his service, he were a happy man. Coming toSir
Henry Guilford, the king's comptroller, and bringing with him anoration
of Isocrates, which he had translated out of Greek into English, hedesired
him to speak to the said bishop of London for him; which he also did;and
willed him moreover to write an epistle to the bishop, and to gohimself
with him. This he did, and delivered his epistle to a servant of his,named
William Hebilthwait, a man of his old acquaintance. But God, whosecretly
disposeth the course of things, saw that was not best for Tyndale'spurpose,
nor for the profit of His Church, and therefore gave him to findlittle
favor in the bishop's sight; the answer of whom was this: his housewas
full; he had more than he could well find: and he advised him to seekin
London abroad, where, he said, he could lack no service. 
Being refused of the bishop he came to Humphrey Mummuth, alderman of
London, and besought him to help him: who the same time took him intohis
house, where the said Tyndale lived (as Mummuth said) like a goodpriest,
studying both night and day. He would eat but sodden meat by his goodwill,
nor drink but small single beer. He was never seen in the house towear
linen about him, all the space of his being there. 
And so remained Master Tyndale in London almost a year, marking with
himself the course of the world, and especially the demeanor of thepreachers,
how they boasted themselves, and set up their authority; beholdingalso
the pomp of the prelates, with other things more, which greatlymisliked
him; insomuch that he understood not only that there was no room inthe
bishop's house for him to translate the New Testament, but also thatthere
was no place to do it in all England. 
Therefore, having by God's providence some aid ministered unto him by
Humphrey Mummuth, and certain other good men, he took his leave of the
realm, and departed into Germany, where the good man, being inflamedwith
a tender care and zeal of his country, refused no travail nordiligence,
how, by all means possible, to reduce his brethren and countrymen ofEngland
to the same taste and understanding of God's holy Word and verity,which
the Lord had endued him withal. Whereupon, considering in his mind,and
conferring also with John Frith, Tyndale thought with himself no waymore
to conduce thereunto, than if the Scripture were turned into thevulgar
speech, that the poor people might read and see the simple plain Wordof
God. He perceived that it was not possible to establish the lay people
in any truth, except the Scriptures were so plainly laid before theireyes
in their mother tongue that they might see the meaning of the text;for
else, whatsoever truth should be taught them, the enemies of the truth
would quench it, either with reasons of sophistry, and traditions oftheir
own making, founded without all ground of Scripture; or else jugglingwith
the text, expounding it in such a sense as it were impossible togather
of the text, if the right meaning thereof were seen. 
Master Tyndale considered this only, or most chiefly, to be the cause
of all mischief in the Church, that the Scriptures of God were hiddenfrom
the people's eyes; for so long the abominable doings and idolatriesmaintained
by the pharisaical clergy could not be espied; and therefore all their
labor was with might and main to keep it down, so that either itshould
not be read at all, or if it were, they would darken the right sensewith
the mist of their sophistry, and so entangle those who reguked ordespised
their abominations; wresting the Scripture unto their own purpose,contrary
unto the meaning of the text, they would so delude the unlearned laypeople,
that though thou felt in thy heart, and wert sure that all were falsethat
they said, yet couldst thou not solve their subtle riddles. 
For these and such other considerations this good man was stirred up
of God to translate the Scripture into his mother tongue, for theprofit
of the simple people of his country; first setting in hand with theNew
Testament, which came forth in print about A.D. 1525. CuthbertTonstal,
bishop of London, with Sir Thomas More, being sore aggrieved, despised
how to destroy that false erroneous translation, as they calledit. 
It happened that one Augustine Packington, a mercer, was then atAntwerp,
where the bishop was. This man favored Tyndale, but showed thecontrary
unto the bishop. The bishop, being desirous to bring his purpose topass,
communed how that he would gladly buy the New Testaments. Packingtonhearing
him say so, said, "My lord! I can do more in this matter than mostmerchants
that be here, if it be your pleasure; for I know the Dutchmen andstrangers
that have brought them of Tyndale, and have them here to sell; so that
if it be your lordship's pleasure, I must disburse money to pay forthem,
or else I cannot have them: and so I will assure you to have everybook
of them that is printed and unsold." The bishop, thinking he had God"by
the toe," said, "Do your diligence, gentle Master Packington! get them
for me, and I will pay whatsoever they cost; for I intend to burn anddestroy
them all at Paul's Cross." This Augustine Packington went unto William
Tyndale, and declared the whole matter, and so, upon compact madebetween
them, the bishop of London had the books, Packington had the thanks,and
Tyndale had the money. 
After this, Tyndale corrected the same New Testaments again, andcaused
them to be newly imprinted, so that they came thick and threefold over
into England. When the bishop perceived that, he sent for Packington,and
said to him, "How cometh this, that there are so many New Testamentsabroad?
You promised me that you would buy them all." Then answeredPackington,
"Surely, I bought all that were to be had, but I perceive they haveprinted
more since. I see it will never be better so long as they have letters
and stamps: wherefore you were best to buy the stamps too, and so youshall
be sure," at which answer the bishop smiled, and so the matterended. 

In short space after, it fortuned that George Constantine wasapprehended
by Sir Thomas More, who was then chancellor of England, as suspectedof
certain heresies. Master More asked of him, saying, "Constantine! Iwould
have thee be plain with me in one thing that I will ask; and I promise
thee I will show thee favor in all other things whereof thou artaccused.
There is beyond the sea, Tyndale, Joye, and a great many of you: Iknow
they cannot live without help. There are some that succor them withmoney;
and thou, being one of them, hadst thy part thereof, and thereforeknowest
whence it came. I pray thee, tell me, who be they that help themthus?"
"My lord," quoth Constantine, "I will tell you truly: it is the bishop
of London that hath holpen us, for he hath bestowed among us a greatdeal
of money upon New Testaments to burn them; and that hath been, and yet
is, our only succor and comfort." "Now by my troth," quoth More, "Ithink
even the same; for so much I told the bishop before he went aboutit." 
After that, Master Tyndale took in hand to translate the OldTestament,
finishing the five books of Moses, with sundry most learned and godlyprologues
most worthy to be read and read again by all good Christians. Thesebooks
being sent over into England, it cannot be spoken what a door of light
they opened to the eyes of the whole English nation, which before were
shut up in darkness. 
At his first departing out of the realm he took his journey intoGermany,
where he had conference with Luther and other learned men; after hehad
continued there a certain season he came down into the Netherlands,and
had his most abiding in the town of Antwerp. 
The godly books of Tyndale, and especially the New Testament of his
translation, after that they began to come into men's hands, and tospread
abroad, wrought great and singular profit to the godly; but theungodly
(envying and disdaining that the people should be anything wiser thanthey
and, fearing lest by the shining beams of truth, their works ofdarkness
should be discerned) began to sir with no small ado. 
At what time Tyndale had translated Deuteronomy, minding to print the
same at Hamburg, he sailed thitherward; upon the coast of Holland hesuffered
shipwreck, by which he lost all his books, writings, and copies, hismoney
and his time, and so was compelled to begin all again. He came inanother
ship to Hamburg, where, at his appointment, Master Coverdale tarriedfor
him, and helped him in the translating of the whole five books ofMoses,
from Easter until December, in the house of a worshipful widow,Mistress
Margaret Van Emmerson, A.D. 1529; a great sweating sickness being atthe
same time in the town. So, having dispatched his business at Hamburg,he
returned to Antwerp. 
When God's will was, that the New Testament in the common tongueshould
come abroad, Tyndale, the translator thereof, added to the latter enda
certain epistle, wherein he desired them that were learned to amend,if
ought were found amiss. Wherefore if there had been any such defaultdeserving
correction, it had been the part of courtesy and gentleness, for menof
knowledge and judgment to have showed their learning therein, and tohave
redressed what was to be amended. But the clergy, not willing to havethat
book prosper, cried out upon it, that there were a thousand heresiesin
it, and that it was not to be corrected, but utterly to be suppressed.
Some said it was not possible to translate the Scriptures intoEnglish;
some that it was not lawful for the lay people to have it in theirmother
tongue; some, that it would make them all heretics. And to the intentto
induce the temporal rulers unto their purpose, they said it would make
the people to rebel against the king. 
All this Tyndale himself, in his prologue before the first book ofMoses,
declareth; showing further what great pains were taken in examiningthat
translation, and comparing it with their own imaginations, that withless
labor, he supposeth, they might have translated a great part of theBible;
showing moreover that they scanned and examined every title and pointin
such sort, and so narrowly, that there was not one i therein, but ifit
lacked a prick over his head, they did note it, and numbered it untothe
ignorant people for a heresy. 
So great were then the froward devices of the English clergy (whoshould
have been the guides of light unto the people), to drive the peoplefrom
the knowledge of the Scripture, which neither they would translatethemselves,
nor yet abide it to be translated of others; to the intent (as Tyndale
saith) that the world being kept still in darkness, they might sit inthe
consciences of the people through vain superstition and falsedoctrine,
to satisfy their ambition, and insatiable covetousness, and to exalttheir
own honor above king and emperor. 
The bishops and prelates never rested before they had brought the king
to their consent; by reason whereof, a proclamation in all haste wasdevised
and set forth under public authority, that the Testament of Tyndale'stranslation
was inhibited-which was about A.D. 1537. And not content herewith,they
proceeded further, how to entangle him in their nets, and to bereavehim
of his life; which how they brought to pass, now it remaineth to bedeclared. 
In the registers of London it appeareth manifest how that the bishops
and Sir Thomas More having before them such as had been at Antwerp,most
studiously would search and examine all things belonging to Tyndale,where
and with whom he hosted, whereabouts stood the house, what was hisstature,
in what apparel he went, what resort he had; all which things whenthey
had diligently learned then began they to work their feats. 
William Tyndale, being in the town of Antwerp, had been lodged about
one whole year in the house of Thomas Pointz, an Englishman, who kepta
house of English merchants. Came thither one out of England, whosename
was Henry Philips, his father being customer of Poole, a comelyfellow,
like as he had been a gentleman having a servant with him: butwherefore
he came, or for what purpose he was sent thither, no man couldtell. 
Master Tyndale divers times was desired forth to dinner and support
amongst merchants; by means whereof this Henry Philips becameacquainted
with him, so that within short space Master Tyndale had a greatconfidence
in him, and brought him to his lodging, to the house of Thomas Pointz;
and had him also once or twice with him to dinner and supper, andfurther
entered such friendship with him, that through his procurement he layin
the same house of the sait Pointz; to whom he showed moreover hisbooks,a
nd other secrets of his study, so little did Tyndale then mistrustthis
traitor. 
But Pointz, having no great confidence in the fellow, asked MasterTyndale
how he came acquainted with this Philips. Master Tyndale answered,that
he was an honest man, handsomely learned, and very conformable.Pointz,
perceiving that he bare such favor to him, said no more, thinking that
he was brought acquainted with him by some friend of his. The saidPhilips,
being in the town three or four days, upon a time desired Pointz towalk
with him forth of the town to show him the commodities thereof, and in
walking together without the town, had communication of divers things,
and some of the king's affairs; by which talk Pointz as yet suspectednothing.
But after, when the time was past, Pointz perceived this to be themind
of Philips, to feel whether the said Pointz might, for lucre of money,
help him to his purpose, for he perceived before that Philips wasmonied,
and would that Pointz should think no less. For he had desired Pointzbefore
to help him to divers things; and such things as he named, he required
might be of the best, "for," said he, "I have money enough." 
Philips went from Antwerp to the court of Brussels, which is fromthence
twenty-four English miles, whence he brought with him to Antwerp, theprocurator-general,
who is the emperor's attorney, with certain other officers. 
Within three or four days, Pointz went forth to the town of Barois,
being eighteen English miles from Antwerp, where he had business to do
for the space of a month or six weeks; and in the time of his absenceHenry
Philips came again to Antwerp, to the house of Pointz, and coming in,spake
with his wife, asking whether Master Tyndale were within. Then went he
forth again and set the officers whom he had brought with him fromBrussels,
in the street, and about the door. About noon he came again, and wentto
Master Tyndale, and desired him to lend him forty shillings; "for,"said
he, "I lost my purse this morning, coming over at the passage betweenthis
and Mechlin." So Master Tyndale took him forty shillings, which waseasy
to be had of him, if he had it; for in the wily subtleties of thisworld
he was simple and inexpert. Then said Philips, "Master Tyndale! youshall
be my guest here this day." "No," said Master Tyndale, "I go forththis
day to dinner, and you shall go with me, and be my guest, where youshall
be welcome." 
So when it was dinner time, Master Tyndale went forth with Philips,
and at the going forth of Pointz's house, was a long narrow entry, sothat
two could not go in front. Master Tyndale would have put Philipsbefore
him, but Philips would in no wise, but put Master Tyndale before, forthat
he pretended to show great humanity. So Master Tyndale, being a man of
no great stature, went before, and Philips, a tall, comely person,followed
behind him; who had set officers on either side of the door upon twoseats,
who might see who came in the entry. Philips pointed with his fingerover
Master Tyndale's head down to him, that the officers might see that it
was he whom they should take. The officers afterwards told Pointz,when
they had laid him in prison, that they pitied to see his simplicity.They
brought him to the emperor's attorney, where he dined. Then came theprocurator-general
to the house of Pointz, and sent away all that was there of MasterTyndale's,
as well his books as other things; and from thence Tyndale was had tothe
castle of Vilvorde, eighteen English miles from Antwerp. 
Master Tyndale, remaining in prison, was proffered an advocate and a
procurator; the which he refused, saying that he would make answer for
himself. He had so preached to them who had him in charge, and such as
was there conversant with him in the Castle that they reported of him,
that if he were not a good Christian man, they knew not whom theymight
take to be one. 
At last, after much reasoning, when no reason would serve, although
he deserved no death, he was condemned by virtue of the emperor'sdecree,
made in the assembly at Augsburg. Brought forth to the place ofexecution,
he was tied to the stake, strangled by the hangman, and afterwardsconsumed
with fire, at the town of Vilvorde, A.D. 1536; crying at the stakewith
a fervent zeal, and a loud voice, "Lord! open the king of England'seyes." 
Such was the power of his doctrine, and the sincerity of his life,that
during the time of his imprisonment (which endured a year and a half),
he converted, it is said, his keeper, the keeper's daughter, andothers
of his household. 
As touching his translation of the New Testament, because his enemies
did so much carp at it, pretending it to be full of heresies, he wrote
to John Frith, as followeth, "I call God to record against the day weshall
appear before our Lord Jesus, that I never altered one syllable ofGod's
Word against my conscience, nor would do this day, if all that is inearth,
whether it be honor, pleasure, or riches, might be given me."
[Transcribed 08 May 2007, SLJuhl, compiler]