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William Tindall.' Portrait of William Tyndale or Tindale. C.1494-1536. English scholar and translator of the Bible into English. A leading figure in Protestant reform. In 1536 he was convicted of heresy and executed by strangulation, after which his body was burnt at the stake. The newe Testament, dylygently corrected and compared with the Greke by Willyam Tindale: and fynesshed in the yere of oure Lorde God A.M.D. Anwerp [sic] : Marten Emperowr, 1534. Source: C.23.a.5 frontispiece.