23 September 1413 A.D. John Oldcastle—A Lollard Lord Regaled Before the 59th & 61st Archbishop of Canterbury, the Vicious Anti-Wycliffite, Thomas Arundel
23 September 1413 A.D. John Oldcastle—A Lollard Lord Regaled Before the 59 th & 61 st Archbishop of Canterbury, the Vicious Anti-Wycliffite, Thomas Arundel Graves, Dan. “John Oldcastle: Lollard Lord.” Christianity.com. April 2007. http://www.christianity.com/church/church-history/timeline/1201-1500/john-oldcastle-lollard-lord-11629875.html . Accessed 23 May 2014. John Oldcastle was a frank man. As a youth he indulged in pleasures, but coming under the influence of the reform teachings of Wycliffe, he sobered up, purified his ways and started on a new course. Henry V, like Henry IV before him, persecuted the Lollards. His churchmen told him Wycliffe's doctrines were pestilential heresy. Lollards died under Henry's authority. Despite this, Sir John Oldcastle openly avowed Lollard principles. Perhaps at first he presumed on his former friendship with the king. It is said Oldcastle was the original of Shakespeare's Falstaff, the ...