Thomas More

The title page of his Dialogue calls More a knight, one of the king’s council and chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, and, in the revised edition dated 1530, Chancellor of England. It says that the book treats of images, relics, prayer to saints and pilgrimage, and of the sect of Luther and William Tyndale (More, Dialogue Concerning Heresies title page).

In the third book More argues that Tyndale’s New Testament was rightly burned. It put “seniors” for priests, “congregation” for church and “love” for charity, and More held that these changes were made on purpose to serve Luther’s teaching (More, Dialogue Concerning Heresies book 3, chapter 8). He did not object to an English Bible as such: the church’s law, he says, allowed translations approved by the bishops, and a good one ought to be made (More, Dialogue Concerning Heresies book 3, chapter 16). See Tyndale’s English New Testament.