Brewer's: Arnoldists

The partisans of Arnold of Brescia, who raised his voice against the abuses and vices of the papacy in the twelfth century. He was burnt alive by Pope Adrian IV.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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