[1] When he had preached and set foorth such kind of doctrine, and other the like fond and foolish toies vnto the people, they extolled him to the starres, affirming that he ought to be archbishop and lord chancellour, where he that then enioied that roome, meaning sir Simon de Sudburie that then was aliue, was a traitor to the king and realme, and worthie to lose his head, wheresoeuer he might be apprehended. Ma|nie other things are reported by writers of this Iohn Ball, as the letter, which vnder a kind of darke rid|dle he wrote to the capteine of the Essex rebels, the copie whereof was found in one of their pursses that was executed at London.