Editing Cuthbert Tunstall (section)

==Protestantism==
Tunstall met [[William Tyndale]] in 1523 seeking patronage to translate the Bible (into contemporaneous [[Early Modern English]],) which Tunstall declined, saying he already funded several scholars. Tunstall, who preferred burning heretical books to heretics,<ref>"No one was ever burned in the diocese of Durham under Tunstall’s rule. " {{cite web |title=Bishop Tunstall: The man who survived the Tudors by calculating the odds |url=https://dulib.blog/2022/03/14/bishop-tunstall-the-man-who-survived-the-tudors-by-calculating-the-odds/ |website=Durham University Library and Collections Blog |date=14 March 2022}}</ref> later presided over the buying up and burning of almost all copies of the first edition of [[Tyndale Bible|Tyndale's New Testament]] at Paul's Cross in October 1526. According to some scholars this helped fund Tyndale's subsequent improved edition,[https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/more.2008.45.3.9] as [[Thomas More]] had warned.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gee |first1=John Archer |title=Cuthbert Tunstall's Copy of the First Edition of Utopia |journal=The Yale University Library Gazette |date=1941 |volume=15 |issue=4 |pages=77–83 |jstor=40857097 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40857097 |issn=0044-0175}}</ref>{{rp|81}}