Ball, JOHN, a priest who was one of the leaders in the rebellion of Wat Tyler (q.v.), and was in several respects a precursor of Wycliffe (q.v.), having been repeatedly in trouble for heresy from 1366. He was hanged, drawn, and quartered in 1381. See RICHARD II.
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