⁵ In addition to Revelations 11, 13, and 20:1–10, biblical sources for the Antichrist figure include verses, in the synoptic gospels and several epistles; see for example the parallel passages in Matthew 24:1–24, Mark 13, and Luke 21, as well as 2 Thessalonians 2:1–12, 1 John 2:18–23 and 4:3, and 2 John 1:7. Emmerson notes that the most influential version of the Antichrist legend is probably the Libellus de Antichristo, written by tenth-century monk Adso of Montier-en-Der; see Emmerson, Antichrist, 76–7. For a sixteenth-century version of the legend, see Wynken de Worde’s The Byrthe and Lyfe of the Moost False and Deceytfull Antechryst (London, 1525[?]; STC 670).

⁶ For examples in Wycliffe’s writing and later Lollard tracts, see Emmerson, Antichrist, 71–2.

⁷ John Jewel, An Exposition upon the two Epistles of the Apostle Sainct Paul to the Thessalonians (London: R. Newberie and H. Bynneman, 1583), 282’ (STC 14603).