It was also a time of great persecution. Just three years before Tyndale was born, the Spanish Inquisition was established, and by the time Tyndale was fifteen years old, 8,800 had been burned to death and 90,000 imprisoned under the pope’s Inquisitor General in Spain, Thomas de Torquemada. As Tyndale grew to manhood, terrible persecutions were being poured out upon the Christians in Bohemia and Moravia and against the Waldensians in Italy and France. For example, when Tyndale was four, an army of 18,000 Catholics made war against the Waldensian Christians of Piedmont in Northern Italy, destroying entire towns and villages.
... weren't we just reading a thread about "anti-Catholic" violence???
Do you even know WHY the Spanish Inquisition was formed?
It was because Muslims, practicing Taqiyya, falsely professed conversion to Christianity, so as to pervert the doctrines of the Church. Of the 3,000 people actually killed by the Spanish Inquisition, the vast majority were Catholic priests. Anyone openly professing any religion other than Christianity was automatically outside the jurisdiction of the Spanish Inquisition.