Exhibit 496 ยท Episcopal mandate (printed in Foxe, 1563)
Bishop Tunstall's mandate calling in English New Testaments
all and singular such books conteyning the translation of the new testament in the English tongue
Orders the archdeacons to require, within thirty days, delivery to the bishop's vicar-general of all books containing the New Testament translated into English, under excommunication and suspicion of heresy, and states the reason as translators 'maintainers of Luther's sect' mixing heretical articles into the text.
- Source
- Cuthbert Tunstall, Bishop of London
- Date
- 24 October 1526
- Quoted from
- Pollard, Records of the English Bible (1911), Record XV, p. 134 (English version printed in Foxe, Acts and Monuments, 1563, pp. 449-50)
- Grade
- Reported
- Document
- https://archive.org/details/recordsofenglish00polluoft
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Known through Foxe's 1563 printing, 37 years later; Pollard corrected obvious misprints. Latin date reads 24 October; the English version reads 'xxiii'.