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

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

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