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WILLIAM TYNDALE, HENRY VIII, AND THE OBEDIENCE OF A CHRISTIAN MAN

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William Tyndale's The obedience of a Christian man has been credited with influencing the Henrician regime's thinking and propaganda on the subject of obedience to royal authority. According to an anecdote first recorded by the archdeacon of Nottingham, John Louthe, Henry was so delighted by Tyndale's tract that he called it a book ‘for me and all kings to read’, and historians have argued that Henry tried to recruit Tyndale as a royal propagandist or diplomat in 1531. This article argues that Louthe's anecdote was probably a later invention, and that Henry disapproved of the Obedience and its author. There is little evidence that the king tried to recruit Tyndale, but wanted instead to silence him and force him to abjure his heresies. The Obedience contained very little that would have pleased Henry, presenting him as a mere ‘shadow’ of a king, manipulated by evil prelates. While Tyndale rejected rebellion against even tyrannical rulers, this should not be confused with advocating obedience of the kind that Henry might approve of, and the Obedience sanctioned disobedience of various kinds. From the outset, remarkably radical ideas were contained within an apparently ‘conservative’ tradition of English evangelical political thought.

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The Historical Journal , Volume 64 , Issue 4 , September 2021 , pp. 823 - 843
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51 Wooding, Henry VIII, pp. 88, 99.

52 Rinck to Henry VIII, 4 Oct. 1528, L&P, iv, p. 2083. See also The National Archives (TNA) SP 1/50, fos. 145r–146v.

53 Rinck to Wolsey, 4 Oct. 1528, L&P, iv, p. 2083; West to Hacket, 2 Sept. 1528, ibid., p. 2037.

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55 Ibid., fo. 70r.

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81 Vaughan to Henry VIII, 26 Jan. 1531, BL Cotton MS, Galba B. X., fo. 42r.

82 Vaughan to Henry VIII, 20 May 1531, TNA SP 1/65, fo. 253r.

83 Ibid., fos. 252v–253r.

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85 Chapuys to the emperor, 17 Dec. 1530, CSP Spain, iv, part 1, n. 539.

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89 Vaughan to Henry VIII, 26 Jan. 1531, BL Cotton MS, Galba B. X., fo. 42v.

90 Vaughan to Henry VIII, [Apr. 1531?], BL Cotton MS, Titus B. I., fo. 70r.

91 Ibid.

92 Ibid.

93 Charles V to Henry VIII, [July 1531], L&P, v, no. 354.

94 Elyot to Norfolk, 14 Mar. 1532, BL Cotton MS, Vit. B. XXI., fo. 54r.

95 Tyndale, Obedience, fos. 29r, 32r.

96 Ibid., fos. 6v–7r, 9v, 32r, 44v, 46r.

97 Ibid., fos. 10v, 30v, 47r.

98 Ibid., fo. 21r.

99 Ibid., fo. 13r–v.

100 Ibid., fos. 41v–42r, 77v–78r, 155v, 156v.

101 Ibid., fos. 6r, 53v.

102 Ibid., fos. 38r–v, 80v.

103 Ibid., fos. 33v–34r

104 Ibid., fos. 38r, 42r, 73v–74r, 80v.

105 Ibid., fos. 38v–39r, 41v–42r, 53v, 154v.

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107 Tyndale, Obedience, fo. 80v.

108 Dickens, English Reformation, pp. 110–11; Guy, Tudor England, p. 121; Ryrie, The gospel and Henry VIII, pp. 58–9.

109 Tyndale, Obedience, fos. 78r–v, 154r.

110 Marshall, Reformation England, p. 42.

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114 Tyndale, Obedience, fo. 33r.

115 Ibid., fos. 29v, 151v. This point was later made by Luther. See Martin Luther, Luther's warning to his dear German people, in Franklin Sherman, ed., Luther's works, xlvii (Philadelphia, PA, 1971), p. 19.

116 Tyndale, Obedience, fos. 15r, 42r, 51r.

117 Ibid., fo. 154r–v.

118 Ibid., fo. 23r–v.

119 Ibid., fo. 23v.

120 Ibid., fo. 23r–v.

121 Martin Luther, A sincere admonition by Martin Luther to all Christians to guard against insurrection and rebellion, in Brandt, ed., Luther's works, xlv, pp. 57–8, 61–2.

122 Martin Luther, Admonition to peace (1525) and Against the robbing and murdering hordes of peasants (1525), in H. T. Lehmann and R. Schultz, eds., Luther's works, xlvi (Philadelphia, PA, 1967).

123 Luther, Warning, p. 13.

124 Tyndale, Obedience, fo. 23v.

125 Ibid., fos. 39v, 68r.

126 Luther, Warning, pp. 19–20.

127 Tyndale, Obedience, fo. 24r–v.

128 Eppley, Defending royal supremacy, p. 27.

129 Tyndale, Obedience, fos. 77v–78r, 152r.

130 Thomas More, The confutatyon of Tyndales answere (1532), sigs. D4v–E1r. For More's works against heresy, see Betteridge, Thomas, Writing faith and telling tales: literature, politics, and religion in the work of Thomas More (Notre Dame, IN, 2013), pp. 111–53Google Scholar.

131 More, Confutatyon, sig. D4v.

132 Tyndale, Obedience, fos. 22v–23r, 38r.

133 Eppley, Defending royal supremacy, p. 27.

134 More, Confutatyon, sigs. D3r–4v.

135 Cromwell to Vaughan, [early May 1531?], BL Cotton MS, Galba B. X., fo. 339r.

136 Thomas Swinnerton, A litel treatise ageynste the mutterygne of some papists in corners (1534), sig. C1r–v.

137 Henry VIII, A glasse of the truthe (1532), sigs. C4r, C7r. See also Swinnerton, A litel treatise, sigs. B8r–v, C1r–v.

138 Henry VIII, Glasse of the truthe, sigs. C4r, C7r, E1v–2r.

139 Henry VIII, ‘Answer to the petitions of the traitors and rebels in Lincolnshire’, 10 Oct. 1536, in St Clare Byrne, ed., Letters of Henry VIII (Newcastle, 1936), p. 143; Henry VIII, ‘To the rebels in Yorkshire’, 2 Nov. 1536, in ibid., p. 152; Richard Morison, An exhortation to styr all Englyshe men to the defence of theyr countreye (1539), sig. B2v.

140 Tyndale, Practyse, sigs. K2r–v, K3v.

141 Ibid., sig. H4r.

142 Ibid., sigs. H2r, K9v.

143 Ibid., sigs. A4v–A5r.

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