St. Thomas More Killed William Tyndale?

[Era Might]

Does anyone know if this is true? It's an accusation from another (Protestant) forum, that St. Thomas More had Tyndale killed, and thus deserved to die as he did.

[Thy Geekdom Come]

Impossible. St. Thomas More wrote against Tyndale and condemned his works, but was martyred a year before Tyndale died (St. Thomas died in 1535, Tyndale in 1536):

[url="http://www.williamtyndale.com/0sirthomasmore.htm"]http://www.williamtyndale.com/0sirthomasmore.htm[/url]

[Era Might]

Interesting. I just posted that. We'll see what he has to say. Here was the original accusation:

[quote]As for Thomas Moore, he and Henry VIII were the sole perpetrators of the death of William Tyndale, hiring an assassin to find him and bring him to "justice". His crime? Translating the bible into English. For his efforts he was burned at the stake. Thomas Moore deserved whatever he got.[/quote]
He may rebut that St. Thomas More hired the assassin before he died.

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='Era Might' post='1112119' date='Nov 5 2006, 07:03 PM']
Interesting. I just posted that. We'll see what he has to say. Here was the original accusation:
He may rebut that St. Thomas More hired the assassin before he died.
[/quote]
Psssh. The link says the Holy Roman Emperor did it. Tyndale lived in Amsterdam. I'm not sure how much control Henry VIII would have over that.

[Era Might]

Yah, I've also been accused of being part of an "infiltration" of the site with "catholic jesuit stuff".

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='Era Might' post='1112125' date='Nov 5 2006, 07:17 PM']
Yah, I've also been accused of being part of an "infiltration" of the site with "catholic jesuit stuff".


[/quote]

[Mateo el Feo]

[quote name='Raphael' post='1112084' date='Nov 5 2006, 06:17 PM']
Impossible. St. Thomas More wrote against Tyndale and condemned his works, but was martyred a year before Tyndale died (St. Thomas died in 1535, Tyndale in 1536):

[url="http://www.williamtyndale.com/0sirthomasmore.htm"]http://www.williamtyndale.com/0sirthomasmore.htm[/url]
[/quote]So according to the link, it looks like they were both arrested at around the same time. St. Thomas More was indicted on 1 July 1535 ([url="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14689c.htm"]link[/url]). According to the Tyndale website (I assume non-Catholic), Tyndale was arrested in the same month (after 15 months in prison, he was executed on 6 Oct 1536. [url="http://www.williamtyndale.com/0reformationtimeline.htm"]link[/url]).

Henry VIII founded the Church of England (independent from Rome) in the period from 1531 to 1534 ([url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Church_of_England#Separation_from_Papal_Authority"]link[/url]), and it seems that he should get the credit/blame for executing both of them.

[cathoholic_anonymous]

[quote]Yah, I've also been accused of being part of an "infiltration" of the site with "catholic jesuit stuff".[/quote]

Oh, those Jesuits. It's [i]always[/i] the Jesuits...

[phatcatholic]

check out this article:
[url="http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/2002/0212fea3.asp"]http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/2002/0212fea3.asp[/url]

[Mateo el Feo]

[quote name='Mateo el Feo' post='1113873' date='Nov 7 2006, 01:41 PM']Henry VIII founded the Church of England (independent from Rome) in the period from 1531 to 1534 ([url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Church_of_England#Separation_from_Papal_Authority"]link[/url]), and it seems that he should get the credit/blame for executing both of them.
[/quote]Oops...I'm not reading the links close enough. Didn't realize that Wycliff was in Antwerp at the time of his arrest. I guess, the worst we could say is that Henry VIII wasn't a friend of Wycliff (according to the Wikipedia, he wanted Charles V to extradict Wycliff because of Wycliff's opposition to his divorce).

In any event, I still think the accusation against St. Thomas More is pretty absurd, given the timelines.

[toledo_jesus]

[quote name='Mateo el Feo' post='1114872' date='Nov 8 2006, 04:19 AM']
In any event, I still think the accusation against St. Thomas More is pretty absurd, given the timelines.
[/quote]
Any accusation against More was absurd. The man was a genius and did his best to avoid incriminating himself even in light of Henry's new rules. Spurious reason was used to find a 'legal' reason to execute the man.

[Aloysius]

StThomasMore is only 13 and didn't even live back then. Though, he might have burned Mr. Tyndale's bible if it was given to him as a Christmas present, I suppose.

[123]

[quote]Does anyone know if this is true? It's an accusation from another (Protestant) forum, that St. Thomas More had Tyndale killed, and thus deserved to die as he did.
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Sadly, Era Might, I actually watched a old motion picture that told that exact accusation. This of course was when I was protestant.

The bad part was, I watched this in my teenage sunday school class that my dads best friend taught it.

Edited November 10, 2006 by GloriaIesusChristi

[Guest JeffCR07]

[quote name='Aloysius' post='1116385' date='Nov 9 2006, 09:13 PM']
StThomasMore is only 13 and didn't even live back then. Though, he might have burned Mr. Tyndale's bible if it was given to him as a Christmas present, I suppose.
[/quote]

hahaha

[Resurrexi]

[quote]StThomasMore is only 13 and didn't even live back then. Though, he might have burned Mr. Tyndale's bible if it was given to him as a Christmas present, I suppose.[/quote]

lol