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60: 156:, Baxter taught controversial Lollard doctrines. She was very critical of regimented church life and spoke out against multiple church practices from Sunday worship traditions to infant baptism and the image of the crucifix. As were many Lollards, Baxter was tried for heresy in October 1428 and in 1429 as part of the 132:, which at the time held great power, and had sought to bring about reform. Wycliffe and the Lollards translated the Bible into English, and aimed to cleanse religion of corruption and excessive wealth, and to bring all Christians in to more direct contact with God. The Lollards were precursors of the 168:
Johanna Clifland testified against her, claiming that Baxter had expressed a variety of unorthodox sentiments, speaking out against the traditions of sanctioned marriage, fasting for religious days, and the swearing of religious oaths. Echoing foundational Lollard beliefs, Baxter also opposed the
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Six months after Johanna Clifland made her accusations, Margery Baxter confessed in October 1428, and she was sentenced to four Sunday floggings at her parish church. two at the local marketplace and then two recants at the cathedral. She had admitted that she had smuggled and hidden White's
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She was brought to trial again in April 1429 and although the charges were serious, she believed she would escape death because she was pregnant. This was not certain, but she was not sentenced to death, and this may be because she implicated another Lollard, John Pyry from Martham.
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in Norfolk where her husband William Baxter was a wright. Her husband had already been convicted of heresy before she came to trial.
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who had been burnt at the stake in 1428 with fellow heretics Hugh Pye of Loddon and John (or William) Waddon.
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were a fourteenth and fifteenth century heretical sect who followed the teachings of
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wealth of Catholic clergymen and the practice of confession to church officials.
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confessions to God are not required (one can rely on God's mercy);
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killing of any type including capital punishment are wrong;
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teachings at her home and that she believed six heresies:
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only people who keep God's commandments are Christian;
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