The Great Bible (Myles Coverdale, under Thomas Cromwell, 1539). The first English Bible authorised for public use, ordered chained in every parish church so that any parishioner could read it — a reversal so complete that the same wording which had sent Tyndale to the stake three years earlier was now set up by royal injunction. Its Psalter stayed in the Book of Common Prayer for centuries after the rest of the translation was superseded.