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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