... . Probably nearly 16,000 were executed. (So says Francisco Bethencourt, The Inquisition: A Global History, 1478-1834 [Cambridge UP, 2010].) WRONG! Since 2011 is the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, I throw this one into the wrong hopper: The learned Hebrew scholar Hugh Broughton, who wasn’t chosen to be on the KJV translation committee, wrote to the King when the “Authorized Version” was published that he would “rather be rent in pieces with wild horses” than see the new Bible used ...
