Note 415 — Chapter I · PENAL METHODS OF THE MIDDLE AGES
Reading edition
Lea, Hist. Inq. Middle Ages, i. p. 222.
A deacon was burned at Oxford in 1222, having been tried before Archbishop Langton for embracing Judaism in order to marry a Jewess.[418] From that time until 1400 no one is said to have been burned to death for heresy in England.—Maitland, Law Quarterly Review, ii. p. 153. London, 1886.