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Florilegium urbanum - Religion - Town authorities accused of abetting Lollardy |
 | | The mayor has drawn into his circle of advisors William Northwold, a Lollard and one who engages in instructing and taking confession from those lay people of the town who are Lollards, without licence from the Bishop. |
 | | As indicated in Stormesworth's complaints, Northwold had somehow managed to procure appointment to the archdeaconry of Sudbury before 1386, when he was allied with another cleric, Hugh de Gaudeby; in March the pair were putting up £1000 bonds to one another for some unspecified reason. |
 | | June 1386 saw orders for Northwold's arrest sent into Suffolk, with instructions he be brought before king and council (although they were cancelled three weeks later), and this may be associated with a chaplain, John Elys, finding guarantors in July that he would neither do, nor procure, harm to the archdeacon. |
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