Timeline Monday 2 March 1401

Events on Monday 2 March 1401 1

• 1401 First burning of a Lollard heretic in England William Sawtrey is executed under a new statute authorising death for heresy The priest William Sawtrey was burned at the stake in London on 2 March 1401 after being condemned for Lollard heresy, the first person executed this way in England. Parliament shortly afterward passed the statute De Heretico Comburendo, formally authorising burning as the punishment for heresy. The law remained a tool for suppressing religious dissent in England for more than a century.