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SIMON OF SUDBURY (d. 1381)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 19 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIMON OF SUDBURY (d. 1381)  , archbishop of Canterbury, was born at Sudbury in Suffolk, studied at the university of Paris, and became one of the chaplains of Pope Innocent VI., who sent him, in 1356, on a
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mission to
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Edward III. of England . In
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October 1361 the pope appointed him bishop of
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London, and he was soon serving the king as an ambassador and in other ways . In 1375 he succeeded William Wittlesey as archbishop of Canter-bury, and during the rest of his
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life was a partisan of John of Gaunt . In
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July 1377 he crowned Richard II., and in 1378 John Wycliffe appeared before him at
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Lambeth, but he only took proceedings against the reformer under
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great pressure . In
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January 138o Sudbury became chancellor of England, and the revolting peasants regarded him as one of the
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principal authors of their woes . Having released John Ball from his prison at
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Maidstone, the Kentish insurgents attacked and damaged the archbishop's
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property at Canterbury and Lambeth; then, rushing into the Tower of London, they seized the archbishop himself . Sudbury was dragged to Tower Hill and, on the 14th of
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June 1381, was beheaded . His
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body was afterwards buried in Canterbury
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Cathedral . Sudbury rebuilt
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part of the church of St Gregory at Sudbury, and with his
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brother, John of
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Chertsey, he founded a college in this
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town; he also did some
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building at Canterbury . His
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father was Nigel Theobald, and he is some-times called Simon Theobald or Tybald . See W . F .

Hook, Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury . SUDBURY, a
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post town and outport of
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Nipissing
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district, Ontario,
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Canada, on .the
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Canadian Pacific railway, 443 M . W. of
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Montreal . Pop . (19oI), 2027 . It has manufactures of
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explosives,
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lumber and planing mills, and is the largest nickel
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mining centre in the
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world . Gold, copper and other minerals are also raised . Practically all the ore is shipped to the
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United States .

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