For proof that translators of the Bible into English were hunted down and executed, google “William Tyndale”
“Oh Lord, open the King of England’s eyes”
I googled “William Tyndale” and found that he incurred the wrath of Henry VIII and was arrested and tried on a charge of heresy and treason and was executed in 1536.
Henry VIII was most decidedly NOT the Catholic Church. He was the head of the Church of England.
Try again!
Tyndale was tried and executed in Belgium for heresy. The Belgians really didn't care whether he'd translated the Bible in English or Mandarin Chinese, because they didn't speak either language.
Tyndale was "fingered" to the Belgian Catholic church authorities by an English agent of the (by then) Protestant English King Henry VIII. Henry VIII objected to him (in part) because -- ironically enough -- Tyndale supported the Pope in rejecting Henry's divorce of Katharine of Aragon in order to marry Anne Boleyn.
The title page of the 1611 KJV admits that the Bible had been translated into English many times before, and it is far from true that all of those translaters were "hunted down". The earliest translator of any portion of the Bible into an English language (then Anglo-Saxon or "Old English") is a canonized Catholic saint, Bede the Venerable.