The whole works of W. Tyndall, John Frith, and Doct. Barnes, three worthy martyrs,…The vvhole workes of W. Tyndall, Iohn Frith, and Doct. Barnes, three worthy martyrs,…

Here followeth the history and discourse of the life of William Tyndall out of the book of Acts and Monuments Briefly extracted.

Here foloweth the historie and discourse of the lyfe of William Tyndall out of the booke of Actes and Monumentes Briefly extracted.

For so much as the life of W. Tyndall author of this treatise immediately following, is sufficiently & at large discoursed in the book of Acts and Monuments, by reason whereof we shall not need greatly to intermeddle with any new repetition thereof, yet notwithstanding because as we have taken in hand to collect and set forth his whole works together, so we thought it not unconuenient, to collect likewise some brief notes concerning the order of his life and godly conversation that both his teaching, & living going together, as the one may edify by doctrine, so the other may profit by example. First touching the birth and parentage of this blessed Martyr in Christ, he was borne in the edge of Wales, and brought up from a child in the university of Oxford, where he by long continuance grew, and increased aswell in the knowledge of tongues, and ⟨image 5⟩other liberal arts, as especially in the knowledge of Scriptures, whereunto his mind was singularly addicted: Insomuch that he lying in Magdalene hall, read privily to certain students, and fellows of Magdalene College, some parcel of Divinity, instructing them in the knowledge, and trueth of the Scriptures. Whose manners also and ¹conversation being correspondent to the same, were such that all they which knew him, reputed, and esteemed him to be a man of most virtuous disposition, and of a life unspotted. Thus he in the university of Oxford increasing more and more in learning, and proceeding in degrees of the schools, spying his time, removed from thence to the University of Cambridge, where after he had likewise made his abode a certain space, and being now farther ripened in the knowledge of Gods word, leaving that university also, he resorted to one M. Welsh a knight of Gloucester shear and was there school master to his children, and in very good favour with his master. This gentleman, as he kept a very good ordinary commonly at his table, there resorted unto him many times sundry Abbots, Deans, Archdeacons, with other divers Doctors, and great beneficed men: Who there together with M. Tyndall sitting at the same table, did use many times to enter communication and talk of learned men as of Luther and Erasmus, and of diverse controversies, and questions upon the scripture. At which time M.