John Oldcastle, Lollard leader, hung and burnt hanging for denying transubstantiation, 1417(1848). Artist: Unknown

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John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, Lollard leader, condemned as heretic for denying transubstaniation and hung and burnt hanging in St Giles's Fields, London, 1417. Original model for Shakespeare's John Falstaff. Wood engraving, 1848.

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