[1] [2] [3] [4] On the fourth of Februarie the parlement be|gan, in the which (amongst other things) enacted,Religious houses giuen to the king. all religious houses of the value of three hundred marks and vnder, were giuen to the king, with all the lands and goods to them belonging. I. Stow. The number of these houses were thrée hundred seauentie and six; the va|lue of their lands yearlie aboue two and thirtie thou|sand pounds; their moouable goods one hundred thousand; the religious persons put out of the same houses, amounted to the number of aboue 10000. This yéere was William Tindall burnt at a towne betwixt Bruxels and Maclin called Uillefort.William Tin|dall burnt. This Tindall, otherwise called Hichins, was borne in the marches of Wales, and hauing a desire to translate and publish to his countrie diuerse books of the bible in English, and doubting to come in trouble for the same, if he should remaine here in England, got him ouer into the parties of beyond the sea, where he translated not onelie the new testament into the English toong, but also the fiue bookes of Moses, Io|sua, Iudicum, Ruth, the books of the kings, and Pa|ralipomenon, Nehemias, or the first of Esdras, and the prophet Ionas.