Lollardy

John Wycliffe, the Oxford theologian behind Lollardy, was dismissed from the university for heresy in 1381. His followers, nicknamed Lollards, put Scripture into English as the Wycliffite Bible.

After the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, their protectors fell away. Henry IV enacted the law De heretico comburendo in 1401, and the knight John Oldcastle, convicted in 1413, escaped from the Tower of London and led an uprising that failed.

Driven underground, the Lollards survived as small secret groups. Around 310 Lollards were prosecuted in the diocese of London between 1510 and 1532, and the movement was largely absorbed into English Protestantism during the Reformation.