1388-09-30, Cambridge

Commission to Thomas de Owneby, suffragan of John, bishop of Lincoln, to arrest and bring before the council all the books, pamphlets, sheets and quires containing the heresies of Masters John Wycliff, Nicholas Hereford, John Aston and their followers, to make proclamation prohibiting any persons, under pain of forfeiting all they can forfeit, from maintaining or teaching such opinions or causing such books to be written, bought or sold, and to compel those who have them to surrender them, with power to commit to the nearest gaol offenders after proclamation, until they have retracted their errors.