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Open the king’s eyes

There is a portrait of William Tyndale that hangs in the dining-hall of Hertford College, Oxford.

History Professor Michael Haykin
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Henry VIII | photo: BBC

His right hand in the painting is pointing to what appears to be a Bible, under which there is a Latin couplet, of which the translation runs thus: