Obs. exc. Hist. Also 5 lolla(r)drie, 6 lollerdry. [f. LOLLARD + -RY.] sing. collect. and pl. The tenets of the Lollards.
1414. Act 2 Hen. V., stat. 1. c. 7. Heresiez & errours appellez vulgairement Lollardrie.
c. 1425. Hampole’s Psalter, Metr. Pref. 49. Copyed has this Sauter ben of yuel men of lollardry.
1479. in Eng. Gilds (1870), 417. To put awey … all maner heresies and errours, clepid openly lolladries.
a. 1508. Kennedy, in Bannatyne Poems (Hunter. Club), 144. The schip of faith … Dryvis in the see of Lollerdry that blawis.
1651. N. Bacon, Disc. Govt. Eng., II. xvii. (1739), 94. The former opinions, then known only by the general names of Heresy, are now baptized by the new name of Lollardry.
1884. J. L. Wilson, Wycliffe, viii. 112. John of Gaunt, Lord Latimer, and the Lady Alice Perrers were all tinged with Lollardry.
