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139 of tongues and other liberal arts, gave especial attention to the study of Theology; and he read privately, to certain students and Fellows of Magdalen College, some parcel of divinity; instructing them in the knowledge and truth of the Scriptures.

Tyndale's rooms were, probably, over a now stoned-up door-way, in St. Swithin's Quadrangle—always called a "Quad"—west of the ancient house of the Grammar Master. But nothing of Tyndale's home is now left.

John Foxe, the Martyrologist, was appointed a Probationary Fellow of Magdalen in 1538 and a Fellow in 1539. "For this Foundation," he wrote in later years, 'as there have been, and be yet, many students bound to yield thanks unto God, so I must needs confess to be one, except I will be unkind." Nevertheless, he was unkind enough, in 1545, to resign his Fellowship on the grounds that he could not consent to be forced to attend College-chapel regularly; to promise to take holy orders within seven years of his election as Fellow, or to take the vows of celibacy.

His wife, who was, no doubt, the cause of all this, it may be added, bore him a number of children; and she is credited by him, and by others, with having been possessed of all the womanly virtues!