The “dales” gave us the first English Bible—William Tyndale, who died before he could translate the whole Bible, and Miles Coverdale, who completed the task.
Tyndale had translated the entire New Testament and part of the Old (and was executed), and Coverdale finished the Old Testament—not translating from Hebrew, oddly enough, but from Martin Luther’s German Bible.
It was published in 1535, the first Bible printed entirely in English. It carried a dedication to King Henry VIII—who had ordered the execution of Tyndale.
