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This essay examines the possibility that John Ball acquired Piers Plowman from a personal connection with the poet and revisits the evidence that a William Rokele, priest in Easthorpe (Essex) was the author of Piers Plowman. Johnston then turns to John Ball, showing that he lived in Colchester, quite close to Rokele. In closing, he reads several moments from the A text as offering a radical social critique, arguing that such moments could well have found a sympathetic reader in Ball.
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