The earliest evidence for anti-Lollard polemics in medieval Scotland

Lollardy, Hussitism and the Scottish Inquisition, c.1390 - c.1527

“…A recent discovery in the Traquair Bible, which was at Culross Abbey by the last decades of the fourteenth century, firmly roots concern with heresy in Scotland to twenty years earlier than the first recorded burning of a heretic. 42 Indeed, Eyal Poleg's recent discovery of a brief marginal comment -declared by him as the earliest Scottish "anti-Lollard polemic" -is significant. Around 1390, and possibly not long after the bible arrived at Culross, a short anti-Lollard sentence was added as a marginal gloss to Ezekiel 33:6, and the same phrase was repeated in an empty space at the end of the manuscript by a different hand in the midfifteenth century.…”

“…Around 1390, and possibly not long after the bible arrived at Culross, a short anti-Lollard sentence was added as a marginal gloss to Ezekiel 33:6, and the same phrase was repeated in an empty space at the end of the manuscript by a different hand in the midfifteenth century. 43 Poleg has argued that the original 1390 commentary is in direct reference to the subject of the adjacent biblical text, where Ezekiel rebukes negligent watchmen (the clergy):…”