See also:JOHN See also:BALL (d. 1381)
, an See also:English See also:priest who took a prominent See also:part in the See also:peasant revolt in 1381
.
Little is known of his See also:early years,but he lived probably at See also:York and afterwards at See also:Colchester
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He gained considerable fame as a preacher by expounding the doctrines of See also:John Wycliffe, but especially by his insistence on the principle of social equality
.
These utterances brought him into collision with the See also:archbishop of See also:Canterbury, and on three occasions he was committed to See also:prison
.
He appears also to have been excommunicated, and in 1366 all persons were forbidden to hear him preach
.
His opinions, however, were not moderated, nor his popularity diminished by these See also:measures, and his words had a considerable effect in stirring up the rising which See also:broke out in See also:June 1381
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See also:Ball was then in prison at See also:Maidstone; but he was quickly released by the Kentish rebels, to whom he preached at See also:Blackheath from the See also:text, " When See also:Adam delved and See also:Eve span, Who was then a See also:gentleman?" He urged his hearers to kill the See also:principal lords of the See also:kingdom and the lawyers; and he was afterwards among those who rushed into the See also:Tower of See also:London to seize See also:Simon of See also:Sudbury, archbishop of Canterbury
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When the rebels dispersed Ball fled to the midland counties, but was taken prisoner at See also:Coventry and executed in the presence of See also:Richard II. on the 15th of See also:July 1381
.
Ball, who was called by See also:Froissart " the mad priest of See also:Kent," seems to have possessed the See also:gift of See also:rhyme
.
He undoubtedly voiced the feelings of the See also:lower orders of society at that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time
.
See See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Walsingham, Historic Anglicana, edited by 41
.
T
.
See also:Riley (London, 1863—1864) ; See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry Knighton, Chronicon, edited by J
.
R
.
Lumby (London, 1889—1895) ; See also:Jean Froissart, Chroniques, edited by S
.
Luce and G
.
Raynaud (See also:Paris, 1869—1897) ; C
.
E
.
See also:Maurice, Lives of English Popular Leaders in the See also:Middle Ages (London, 1875) ; C
.
See also:Oman, The See also:Great Revolt of 1381 (See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, 1906)
.
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