Tyndale and the King James Version

Tyndale prints an English New Testament in exile, smuggled into England in bales of cloth; copies are bought up specifically to be burned. In 1536 he is strangled and burned at Vilvoorde. In 1611 the King James Version is published under royal licence, and more than four-fifths of its New Testament wording is his.

Geometry, Survival: A reading: the release outruns the burning. Tyndale dies, and his sentences carry on.

In plain words

Tyndale prints an English New Testament in exile and smuggles it into England in bales of cloth; copies are bought up to be burned, and in 1536 he is strangled and burned. In 1611 the King James Version appears under royal licence, and most of its New Testament wording is his: a man killed for what his opponents' successors later did with the crown's blessing.

The mechanism

RELEASE → RE-ENCLOSURE, AND THE RECEIPT — he was killed for the crime his executioners' own successors committed with the crown's blessing, seventy-five years later. Nobody credited him. The words went out anyway

How it was checked

• EvidenceT5 INDEPENDENT SECULAR; Status: COMMITTED; a capture; a release
• Letter eraTHE RELEASES, AND THE ENCLOSURE THAT FOLLOWS EACH 1382 to 1694
• Plate — Cornelis Boel, engraved title page, The Holy Bible (King James Version), London, 1611 · Univ. of Pennsylvania digital scan · Public domain · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KJV-King-James-Version-Bible-first-edition-title-page-1611.jpg
• SourcesSECULAR RECORD / TEXTUAL COMPARISON