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SUDBURY, SIMON OF (d. 1381) , archbishop of Canterbury, was born at Sudbury in Suffolk, studied at the university of Paris, and became one of the chaplains of Pope
Edward
pope
bishop
ambassador and in other ways. In 1375 he succeeded William Wittlesey as archbishop of Canter-bury, and during the rest of his life was a partisan of John of Gaunt. In July 1377 he crowned Richard II., and in 1378 John Wycliffe appeared before him at Lambeth, but he only took proceedings against the reformer under great
chancellor of England, and the revolting peasants regarded him as one of the principal authors of their woes. Having released John Ball from his prison at Maidstone, the Kentish insurgents attacked and damaged the archbishop's property at Canterbury and Lambeth; then, rushing into the Tower of London, they seized the archbishop himself. Sudbury was dragged to Tower Hill and, on the 14th of June 1381, was beheaded. His body
Nigel
See W. F. Hook, Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury. SUDBURY, a post town and outport of Nipissing
district
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