The first English translations which have been preserved to us were made from the Vulgate, not from the original tongues.
First of all, John Wycliffe's Bible may be called the foundation of the seventeenth century Bible.

Wycliffe's translation, in which he was helped by many others, was published between 1380 and 1388.

So we may say that the foundation of the English Bible dates from the fourteenth century, one thousand years after Jerome's Latin translation.

But Wycliffe's version, excellent as it was, could not serve very long: the English language was changing too quickly.

Accordingly, in the time of Henry VIII Tyndale and Coverdale, with many others, made a new translation, this time not from the Vulgate, but from the Greek text of the great scholar Erasmus.