This image is of a portion of the first page of the Gospel According to St John from William Tyndale's English translation of the New Testament.

Tyndale's unorthodox translations were vigorously opposed by ecclesiastical authorities in England but his version of the Bible, together with the earlier translations of the English theologian and religious reformer John Wycliffe, formed the foundation of the Authorized (King James) Version of 1611. Tyndale was the author of a number of tracts upholding the English Reformation, and he was engaged in acrimonious controversy with the English statesman and humanist writer Sir Thomas More.

John Biddle (1615-1662)

This English religious reformer was born in Wotton-under-Edge and educated at Magdalen College, University of Oxford. He was generally regarded as the founder of Unitarianism in England, Biddle was imprisoned for a short time in 1645 for having written a denial of the deity of the Holy Spirit. The published statement of this opinion was burned in 1647 by order of Parliament. Later publications of his views, which denied the doctrine of the Trinity, were also suppressed, and it was only because of the intervention of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, that Biddle escaped execution as a heretic. He was however jailed and eventually died in prison.