Tyndale's New Testament, 1534 (William Tyndale, 1534 revision of the 1526 first edition). Tyndale translated from the Greek rather than the Latin, printed abroad because it was illegal at home, and had copies smuggled into England in bales of cloth. Bishop Tunstall bought up an edition to burn it and funded the next printing by accident. Tyndale was strangled and burned in 1536; roughly four fifths of his wording survives in the King James, which is to say most English readers have been reading him ever since without knowing it.