William Taylor (died 1423) was a medieval English theologian and priest, executed as a Lollard. Nothing is known of Taylor's career before he named as Principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford in a rent roll for 1405–1406. One sermon from 1406 survives, and was republished by the Early English Text Society in 1993. Taylor next appears as a longstanding excommunicate on 12 February 1420 before Archbishop Chichele. On 14 February he was absolved from his excommunication. On 11 February 1423 he was again brought before Chichele, and this time was convicted; on 1 March 1423 was stripped of his status as a priest. The next day he was burnt at Smithfield. References Sources Anne Hudson, ed., Two Wycliffite Texts: The Sermon of William Taylor, 1406 — The Testimony of William Thorpe, 1407 (Early English Text Society 301, Oxford, 1993) 1423 deaths People temporarily excommunicated by the Catholic Church Executed British people People executed under the Lancastrians 15th-century English Roman Catholic priests Executed English people Principals of St Edmund Hall, Oxford People executed by the Kingdom of England by burning Year of birth unknown Lollard martyrs