English Bible, English Revolution; Welsh Bible, no Welsh Revolution One of the big issues which triggered the Reformation was the question of the Bible. The Roman Catholic Church insisted that it be restricted to Latin, so as to preserve the monopoly of its knowledge to the priestly class and the educated sections of society. By way of contrast Protestant Reformers emphasised the priesthood of all believers and insisted on the need for every Christian to read the Scriptures in his own tongue. A s early as 1380 John Wycliffe began translating the Bible into English but suffered for this in the wake of the upheaval of the Peasants’ Revolt. However, he fared better than William Tyndale who translated the whole Bible and ended up being condemned for heresy in the Netherlands before being executed by strangulation and burning at the stake in 1536. In Wales the first translation of the New Testament into Welsh was completed in 1567, the first fruits of a 1563 statute requiring a We...