Who said anything about punishing people for having a Bible? Certain translations were no doubt suppressed, as counterfeit currency or fraudulent deeds would have been destroyed. This was a particular problem with the advent of the printing press, when any man with a bit of money and some Greek and Latin could crank out a version. But Sir Thomas More, in his Dialogue Concerning Heresies, notes that English law only forbade Luther and Tyndale-influenced versions, as those were of dubious accuracy and deviated from Christian orthodoxy. More, being a man of Law himself, should know more about then-contemporary English law than either of us. I will not speak about the rest of European law, since I am less familiar with its Reformation-era history.