Matthew's BIBLE. On Tindal's death, his work was carried on by Coverdale, and John Rogers, superintendent of an English church in Germany, and the first martyr in the reign of Queen Mary, who translated the Apocrypha, and revised Tindal's translation, comparing it with the Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and German, and adding prefaces and notes from Luther's Bible. He dedicated the whole to Henry VIII., in 1537, under the borrowed name of Thomas Matthews; whence this has usually been called Matthew's Bible. It was printed at Hamburg, and license obtained for publishing it in England by the favour of Archbishop Cranmer, and the bishops Latimer and Shaxton.