Pynson & Elyot"---Opps, I forgot this neat ti(t/d)bit
Mike Weaver
pic at gn.apc.org
Sun Jun 29 17:59:09 CDT 1997
> This is the El(i/y)ot who
>wrote the popular volume called "the Governor"
>and who had been sent by Henry 8 to find and kill
>Will Tyndale, which he happily managed to avoid doing
>in any way shape or form, though others got 'em
>in the end.
Maybe a good thing for me. My mum's mum was a Tyndale by birth, a direct
descendent of WT, which makes me one too, I suppose. For the blissed round
here, he was the first person executed for translating the Bible into English.
AMF
Mike
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