a 16th-century Protestant reformer and English propagandist. Fish is best known for helping to spread William Tyndale's New Testament and for authoring the vehemently anti-clerical pamphlet Supplication for the Beggars (also spelled A Supplycacion for the Beggars) which was condemned as heretical by the Roman Catholic Church on 24 May 1530. His pamphlet can be seen as a precursor to the English Reformation and, more broadly, the Protestant Reformation.
