Possible Clues:

• William ____ translated the first new English bible produced during the Reformation
• Translator's boy held up by river in the north-east
• Having neatly translated brought about the onset of death for him
• It's not bottled beer, they say, for a man of the Bible
• Bible translator foremost in Tewkesbury and Ely, possibly
• Deuteronomy originally neatly translated by him?