The Lollards
Catriona Troth explores some roots of Quakerism
A memorial stands on the hill overlooking the Buckinghamshire market town of Amersham. It marks the spot where, at two separate times in the early sixteenth century, seven men and women were burnt at the stake for heresy.
The seven were Lollards and part of a growing group across Europe who wanted to be able to read the Bible for themselves, in their own language, without a priest as intermediary. Since 2001 their lives and deaths have been commemorated through a community play put on at the behest of the Amersham Museum.
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