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Exhibit 530

Dictionary of National Biography, 'Tyndale, William'

Exhibit 530 ยท Reference biography

Dictionary of National Biography, 'Tyndale, William'

No record of his trial has been found

Says Tyndale was arrested in May 1535 and taken to Vilvorde, tried for heresy, condemned and degraded from orders; that no record of the trial has been found; and that he was executed at Vilvorde on 6 October 1536, strangled and then burnt.

Source
Dictionary of National Biography (vol. 57)
Date
1899
Quoted from
Entry text, paragraph on Vilvorde
Grade
Reported
Document
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Tyndale,_William
Accessed
2026-11-09
Cited by
Findings citing this exhibit
Note
Secondhand. Primary records would be the Council of Brabant archives and Letters and Papers of Henry VIII (Vaughan to Cromwell, 13 April 1536, as cited by the DNB). Hall's Chronicle (1548) places the condemnation in September.

Cited by

Finding REL-2.3
Primary record A royal proclamation of June 1530 forbade having the New or Old Testament in English except persons appointed by the king and the bishops to correct the translation, forbade printing English Scripture without the diocesan's approval, and stated that its distribution "dependeth onely vpon the discretion of the superiours."