... trials in the British Isles before the Reformation."2 The trial took place April 18, 1430, in the Lambeth Palace, Norwich. The judge is unknown, but is presumably the Bishop of Norwich, considering he and the archbishop would evaluate the proceedings. This was at a time when the amount of trials began to heighten and the extents of the punishments worsened. The manuscript is of paper and was preserved along with the whole collection when it was bound to several other manuscripts in 1881. The main reason that this manuscript was preserved was due to its content, which provided historians with an in depth look at the ideas of "not only the person confessing but also those of inquisitors who thought the ideas were especially dangerous and in need of Ring, 2 suppression."3 Several bishops and archbishops have also used this document to let people know about the past and to try ...

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