[Campion]

Although there were earlier attempts of an English translation of the Bible, the first whole translation of the Bible into the English language is ascribed to John Wycliffe (1384), who was an English theologian and religious reformer

Which is fine. Keep in mind that the "English language" per se didn't exist until shortly before that time. (Try reading Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in the original Middle English if you don't believe me.)

Venerable Bede translated portions of the Scriptures into Anglo-Saxon back in the 8th or 9th Century.

[Soliton]

“Venerable Bede translated portions of the Scriptures into Anglo-Saxon back in the 8th or 9th Century.”

these were local attempts with no evidence of Papal authority. If you have a contemporaneous source, please share it.

The Church burned the Wycliff Bibles and Wycliff.