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Do not fill this in! ====Betrayal and death==== Eventually, Tyndale was betrayed by Henry Phillips{{sfn|Edwards|1987}} to ducal authorities representing the [[Holy Roman Empire]].<ref>{{Citation |contribution=Tyndale |contribution-url=http://www.bible-researcher.com/tyndale4.html |title=Bible researcher}}</ref> He was seized in [[Antwerp]] in 1535, and held in the castle of Vilvoorde (Filford) near [[Brussels]].{{Sfn |Foxe |1570 |p=[http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/johnfoxe/main/8_1570_1228.jsp VIII.1228]}} [[File:Ioan Latomus Francf Dec Theol et Hist (BM 1871,1209.5616).jpg|thumb|Latomus]] Following the insurrections of the [[Albigensians]], the [[Lollards]], the [[Hussites]], the [[German Peasants' War]], the [[Münster rebellion|Münster Anabaptist rebellion]], etc., [[Heresy in Christianity#High Middle Ages (800–1299) and Late Middle Ages and the early Renaissance (1300–1520)|heresy]] was connected by states with [[sedition]] and possible [[regicide]]; it carried, at worst, the terrible death penalty of burning at the stake. The Church could usually protect someone accused of heresy from being charged by the [[secular arm|state]], if that person satisfied the appointed theologian Inquisitor, in a formal process, that they did not (now) hold heretical views. In Tyndale's case, he was held in prison for a year and a half: his Inquisitor, [[Latomus]] gave him the opportunity to write a book stating his views; Latomus wrote a book in response to convince him of his errors; Tyndale wrote two in reply; Latomus wrote two further books in response to Tyndale. Latomus' three books were subsequently published as one volume: in these it can be seen that the discussion on heresy revolves around the contents of three other books Tyndale had written on topics like justification by faith, free will, the denial of the soul, and so on. Latomus makes no mention of Bible translation; indeed, it seems that in prison, Tyndale was allowed to continue making translations from the Hebrew.<ref name=health>{{cite book | last =Juhász | first = Gergely |author2=Paul Arblaster | editor = Johan Leemans | title = More Than a Memory: The Discourse of Martyrdom and the Construction of Christian Identity in the History of Christianity | chapter = Can Translating the Bible Be Bad for Your Health?: William Tyndale and the Falsification of Memory | publisher = Peeters Publishers | year = 2005 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=mfZlsUVYClwC | isbn = 90-429-1688-5}}</ref> [[Thomas Cromwell]] was involved in some intercession or plans such as extradition.<ref name=Schofield>{{cite book |last1=Schofield |first1=John |title=The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell: Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant |date=2011 |publisher=The History Press |isbn=978-0-7524-7292-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x0Q7AwAAQBAJ |language=en}}</ref>{{rp|220}} [[File: Foxe's Book of Martyrs - Tyndale.jpg|thumb|upright=1.35|Tyndale, before being strangled and burned at the stake in [[Vilvoorde]], cries out, "Lord, open the King of England's eyes". [[Woodcut]] from [[John Foxe|Foxe's]] ''[[Book of Martyrs]]'' (1563) which is the earliest source of the quote.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Rex |first1=Richard |title=The Religion of Henry Viii |journal=The Historical Journal |date=2014 |volume=57 |issue=1 |pages=1–32 |doi=10.1017/S0018246X13000368 |jstor=24528908 |s2cid=159664113 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24528908 |issn=0018-246X}}</ref>{{rp|32}}]] When Tyndale could not be convinced to abjure, he was handed over to the Brabantine [[secular arm]] and tried on charges of [[Lutheran]] heresy in 1536. The charges did not mention Bible translation, which was not illegal in the Netherlands.<ref name="health"/>{{rp|317,321}} He was found guilty by his own admission and condemned to be executed. Tyndale "was strangled to death{{efn|This was the custom in Flanders, a mercy. {{cite book |last1=Schofield |first1=John |title=The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell: Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant |date=2011 |publisher=The History Press |isbn=978-0-7524-7292-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x0Q7AwAAQBAJ |language=en}}{{rp|220}} }} while tied at the stake, and then his dead body was burned".{{sfn|Farris|2007|p=37}} His final words, spoken "at the stake with a fervent zeal, and a loud voice", were reported later as "Lord! Open the King of England's eyes."{{Sfn |Foxe |1570 |p=[http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/johnfoxe/main/8_1570_1229.jsp VIII. 1229]}}{{sfn|Daniell|2001|p=383}} The traditional date of commemoration is 6 October, but records of Tyndale's imprisonment suggest that the actual date of his execution was some weeks earlier.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tyndale.org/TSJ/25/arblaster.html|title=An Error of Dates?|last=Arblaster|first=Paul|year=2002|access-date=7 October 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927021257/http://www.tyndale.org/TSJ/25/arblaster.html|archive-date=27 September 2007}}</ref> Foxe gives 6 October as the date of commemoration (left-hand date column), but gives no date of death (right-hand date column).{{Sfn |Foxe |1570 |p=[http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/johnfoxe/main/8_1570_1228.jsp VIII.1228]}} Biographer David Daniell states his date of death only as "one of the first days of October 1536".{{sfn|Daniell|2001|p=383}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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