The point is, MarkBsnr, that the pursuit of Tyndale by the Catholic monarchy began in 1525. The pursuit of Tyndale continued despite what so many mistakenly believe to be the Protestant conversion of Henry VIII. He, himself, never embraced Protestantism. He hated Protestants, he had them killed and his Lord Chancellor Thomas More followed through in spectacular fashion for his king. The dissolution of Catholic monasteries did not begin until the year of Tyndale’s death. The Six Acts of 1539 affirmed Catholic religious belief. The country vacillated back and forth between killing Protestants and killing Catholics for over a century afterward. To attempt to claim that Tyndale was killed by state authorities acting against the plain interests of the Catholic church, established over a decade before and well before any putative “conversion” or excommunication, is not intellectually honest and is not historically accurate.
Henry Tudor didn’t care for Lutherans, sure. But the fledgling CofE turned Calvinist immediately. The basis for the WCF and the original doctrines of the CofE reside in Calvin and not Luther, and certainly not in Zwingli.
I don’t claim that the Catholic Church had anything more than animosity for Tyndale. Yet, Tudor operated on his own, with his own agent betraying Tyndale to the Belgian secular authorities.