Humphrey Monmouth

Humphrey Monmouth was an English merchant in London who funded the first translation of the Bible into English, Tyndale's Bible by William Tyndale. Monmouth was converted to the cause of reforming the church under the early ministry of Tyndale. Humphrey Monmouth owned a gigantic fleet of ships. William Tyndale's translation reached every corner of the English empire of the time through Monmouth's ships. The spread of the English translation of the Bible was unstoppable because of the merchant's resources. While King Henry VIII tried to stamp out the influence of Tyndale's translation by burning Tyndale at the stake, he was unable to due to the sheer volume of ships carrying the Tyndale translations to all of the British Empire. Monmouth had Lollard connections.[1]

References
  1. p.59-60, Christopher Haigh, English Reformations: Religion, Politics and Society, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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