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JOHN BADBY (d. 1410)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 183 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN BADBY (d. 1410)  , one of the early Lollard martyrs, was a tailor (or perhaps a blacksmith) in the west Midlands, and was condemned by the Worcester diocesan court for his denial of transubstantiation . Badby bluntly maintained that when Christ sat at supper with his disciples he had not his
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body in his hand to distribute, and that " if every
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host consecrated at the altar were the Lord's body, then there be 20,000 Gods in England." A further court in St Paul's,
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London, presided over by Archbishop Arundel, condemned him to be burned at Smith-field, the tournament ground just outside the city walls . It is said that the prince of Wales (afterwards Henry V.) witnessed the execution and offered the sufferer both
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life and a pension if he would recant; but in Walsingham's words, " the abandoned villain declined the prince's advice, and chose rather to be burned thanto give reverence to the life-giving
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sacrament .

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