A body of primitive Wes-leyans, who assumed importance about the time of John wycliffe, (1360,) and were very successful iu disseminating evangelical truth; but, being implicated (apparently against thelr wlll) in tbe insurrection of,the villeins in 1381, the statute De Haretico Comburen-do (2 Hen. IV. c. 15) was passed against them, for their suppression. However, they were not suppressed, and their representa-tives survive to the present day under vari-008 names and disguises. Brown