Protestant Martyrdom a Reaction to Council of Trent

I don't think it's a myth. If I had to choose a faith between the Inquisitors or those being Inquired, I'd choose the Anabaptists. Just like Sir Thomas Moore and Joan of Arc were true martyrs, so was John Bunyan and many of the Anabaptists put to death.

Reading it, you start to understand the faith a bit more. It's not Dogmas and Heresies that damn you, but rather your actions toward your fellow man. Many of the Inquisitors had perfect Theology, but they put men to death who were living the Gospel better than anyone had since the days of the Apostles.

Many were put to death too. It wasn't only the Government putting people to death. Catholics in Germany and Spain used to mob Protestants, and Catholics in England used to be put out onto the street, and killed and martyred. 

I stand on the side of the Christian who's on the receiving end of abuse. Protestant, Catholic or Orthodox, what have you.

[T]hey did persecute people for making translations. Let's not throw away our history for politics. The exact quote was they didn't want Bibles translated into "Vulgar tongues."

“Christ gave His Gospel to the clergy and the learned doctors of the Church so that they might give it to the laity and to weaker persons, according to the message of the season and personal need. But this Master John Wyclif translated the Gospel from Latin into the English—the Angle not the angel language. And Wyclif, by thus translating the Bible, made it the property of the masses and common to all and more open to the laity, and even to women who were able to read … And so the pearl of the Gospel is thrown before swine and trodden underfoot and what is meant to be the treasure both of clergy and laity is now become a joke of both. The jewel of the clergy has been turned into the sport of the laity, so that what used to be the highest gift of the clergy and the learned members of the Church has become common to the laity.” -- Henry Knighton

“That pestilent and most wretched John Wycliffe, of damnable memory, a child of the old devil, and himself a child or pupil of Antichrist, who, while he lived, walking in the vanity of his mind—with a few other adjectives, adverbs, and verbs, which I shall not give—crowned his wickedness by translating the Scriptures into the mother tongue.” -- Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Arundel.

Fox's book of martyrs says that reading the Bible to the Papacists was akin to Witchcraft and Heresy.

"The principal accusation against those who are subject to this tribunal is heresy, which comprises all that is spoken, or written, against any of the articles of the creed, or the traditions of the Roman Church. The inquisition likewise takes cognizance of such as are accused of being magicians, and of such who read the Bible in the common language, the Talmud of the Jews, or the Alcoran of the Mahometans." - Fox's Book of Martyrs  Chapter 5 par. 8.