Lollards

Originally an a ociation of pious people in Germany at the commencement of the thirteenth century banded together for the purpose of burying the dead. They were so called on account of the solemn dirges they sang, from the Low German lollen , to sing softly. After a time the same title was a umed by the followers of one Walter Goilard, a di olute priest, who was burned for heresy at Cologne in 1322. The Wycliffites a umed this name still later, and some of these it must have been who were imprisoned in the “Lollards’ Tower,” Lambeth Palace.