Beschrijving

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Peter Payne (c. 1380 – c. 1455) was an English theologian, diplomat, Lollard and Taborite, the son of a Frenchman by an English wife, he was born at Hough-on-the-Hill near Grantham.He was educated in Oxford, where he adopted Lollard opinions, and had graduated as a master of arts before 6 October 1406, when he was concerned in the irregular proceedings through which a letter declaring the sympathy of the university was addressed to the Bohemian reformers. From 1410 to 1414 Payne was principal of St Edmund Hall, and during these years was engaged in controversy with Thomas Netter of Walden, the Carmelite defender of Catholic doctrine.