John Badby

John Badby († 1410 ), an early martyr of the Lollards, was a tailor or blacksmith of the West Midlands. He was condemned by the diocesan court Worcester because of its refusal to recognize the transubstantiation.

Badby stubbornly insisted that Christ is not divided his body at the Last Supper with his disciples and that " if every blessed at the altar of the host body of the Lord is, there are 20,000 gods in England ". Another court in St. Paul's in London, chaired by Archbishop Thomas Arundel led, sentenced him to burn at the stake in Smithfield, the tournament area outside the city walls. Supposedly lived with the Prince of Wales, later King Henry V, the execution and offered the condemned both his life and a pension to, if this recant his allegations. However Walsingham writes, " the abandoned heretic refused the prince's offer and moved the combustion front of the life-saving sacrament. So it came to pass that the malicious guy burnt to ashes and miserable in his sin was destroyed. "