William Tyndale, who was convicted of heresy, strangled and burned at the stake in 1536 at Vilvoorde, near Brussels. Tyndale was a renowned scholar and leading figure in the English Protestant Reformation, who translated the Bible into English. From �??Wycliffe to Wesley; Heroes and Martyrs of the Church in Britain�?� published in 1885 by T. Woolmer, London. Author Gregory J. Robinson.