Though not all cheap, they were eagerly bought. And we
have the remarkable fact that, within seventeen years of

* Dorc [Old Bibles) should not blame Tyndale for selling his Testa-
ments, in order to produce better ones.
OLD ST. PAULS AMI I'AUL S rKnss, MHEKB TESTAMENTS
WERE BUKKED.
TYNDALE HARD AT WORK ,75

Tyndale's first New Testament, there were thirty-nine
editions of the New Testament, and fourteen of the whole
Bible. So mightily grew the Word of God, and prevailed.
Henry viii. tried, indeed, to stop the exportation from
Antwerp, but the merchants there found that Christopher
Endhoven, a much respected citizen, was then printing
these books, and they declined to regard them as
heretical.
