Sir Thomas More attacks William Tyndale manuscript on 2pp 4to being a an extract from the papers relating to the dispute between Sir Thomas More and William Tyndale at the time of the divorce of Catherine of Aragon – for which both eventually were beheaded. Written in an early Tudor script in English the document clearly mentions Tyndall as part of its legal argument. This fragment is doubtless a fair copy of a section of a wider document putting forward More’s position, but although there is no date, the ‘hand and star’ watermark in the paper suggests that it was made in France in the first three decades of the 16th c – which would suggest that this is a contemporaneous transcript, probably taken from an early discourse on the historic debate. The document itself is in a fine condition. Marks along the left hand edge of the paper indicate that this was removed at some stage from a larger volume. More and Tyndale clashed in 1535 at the height of the crisis surrounding Henry VIII’s intention to divorce his Queen. Tyndale was also a wanted man for the heresy of translating the Bible into English. Both More and Tyndale were subsequently brutally executed on the King’s command, and both are now revered as English Saints.