Obs. Forms: 4–6 loller, 5 lollere, louller, 5–6 lollar, 6 lolar, loular, lowler. [Var. of LOLLARD, with substitution of suffix -ER1 for -ard.] = LOLLARD.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Shipm. Prol., 11. I smelle a lollere in the wynde quod he. Ibid., 15. This lollere here wol prechen vs somwhat.
1393. Langl., P. Pl., C. VI. 2. Cloþed as a lollere,… Among lollares of london and lewede heremytes.
1426. Audelay, Poems, 37. And sayn hit is a lollere.
c. 1460. Towneley Myst., xxx. 213. I was youre chefe tollare,… Now am I master lollar.
1494. Fabyan, Chron., VII. 600. Henry the .V. … Cherysshed the churche, to Lollers gaue a fall.
c. 1515. Cocke Lorell’s B., 11. With lollers, lordaynes, and fagot berers.
1556. Chron. Gr. Friars (Camden), 12. Thys yere the lorde Cobhame made a rysynge with many lollars and heryttykes.
1623. Cockeram, Lollar, a breaker of fasting-daies.
