\paperw5085 \margr0\margl0\ATXph16380 \plain \fs20 \f1 \fs22 The Lollards were the most important religious dissenters of late medieval England; they were mostly artisans, especi
ally textile workers, though some knights had Lollard sympathies as well. ParliamentÆs response to Lollardy was the statute \i De Heretico Comburendo\i0 of 1401. It forbade unlicensed preaching and condemned heretics to burning at the stake after convi
