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See also: English See also: priest who took a prominent See also: part in the peasant revolt in 1381
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Little is known of his early years,but he lived probably at See also: York and afterwards at 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
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These utterances brought him into collision with the archbishop of
See also: Canterbury, and on three occasions he was committed to prison
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He appears also to have been excommunicated, and in 1366 all persons were forbidden to hear him preach
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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 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 text, " When See also: Adam delved and See also: Eve span, Who was then a 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 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
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Ball, who was called by See also: Froissart " the mad priest of Kent," seems to have possessed the gift of See also: rhyme
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He undoubtedly voiced the feelings of the See also: lower orders of society at that See also: time
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See See also: Thomas Walsingham, Historic Anglicana, edited by 41
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T
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See also: Riley (London, 1863—1864) ; See also: Henry Knighton, Chronicon, edited by J
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Lumby (London, 1889—1895) ;
See also: Jean Froissart, Chroniques, edited by S
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Luce and G
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Raynaud (See also: Paris, 1869—1897) ; C
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See also: Maurice, Lives of English Popular Leaders in the See also: Middle Ages (London, 1875) ; C
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See also: Oman, The See also: Great Revolt of 1381 (See also: Oxford, 1906)
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