Touching Said Persecution; Also About Eckhard

Richard, also called Eckhard, formerly a Dominican monk, was condemned as a heretic, because he fearlessly preached the Gospel, and reproved the abuses of the papists. And in the kingdom of Bohemia and Poland many were put to death for their religion or faith. Chronicle, page 685, column 2, extracted from Hist. Adri., folio 64, Herm. Mod., folio 271, Henr. Boxh., folio 27.

NOTE. John Aston, a well learned man of Oxford, for teaching that the bread of the holy Supper remained unchanged, was arrested as a heretic in the year 1330 by the archbishop of Canterbury, and died in prison. See the authors referred to above in connection with Eckhard.

Others add here, says Nicholas Vignier, that in the said year (in the year 1330) a certain Jacobine monk, Eckhard by name, whom others, though wrongly, call Richard, was publicly burned, because he steadfastly maintained the said opinions of the Waldenses. Nich. Vign., Hist. Eccl., in the year 1330. [n483-1] Also in the second book of the History of the Persecutions, folio 483.