Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ...however, took the blame upon himself and was able to reconcile them at least outwardly. The spring of the year 1382 was marked by Archbishop Courteney convening a Synod at the Grey Friars, in London, for the purpose of deliberating on measures A.D. to be taken against Wickliffe. They determined to 1382. call upon him to answer on one doctrine alone--that of the Eucharist. This was a matter purely spiritual, and so crucial a point that many persons, who were willing enough to support him in his crusade against the wealth and arrogance of the clergy, shrank from joining him in impugning it. Among these was John of Gaunt; on being appealed to by Wickliffe, he advised him to withdraw from such stormy fights, and to avow publicly his submission to his ecclesiastical superiors.60 He did not mean to separate himself completely from the Lollards, for we find him saving Dr. Hereford and William de Swinderby from being put to death for holding these principles. In connection with this he issued a proclamation 61 in A.d. 1383 to the sheriffs of the County of Lancaster, ordaming 1383. that the "Holy Anglican Mother Church" should have Milman's Hist. Lat. Christ. vn., 127. all its liberties whole and unimpaired, and fully enjoy the same; which would rather make us suppose that he wished to remove from himself all suspicion of being a Lollard. After renewing the Scotch treaty of 1381, he was appointed Eichard's lieutenant for the kingdom of France, with powers scarcely less than royal. Previous to his appointment the Bishop of Norwich had been sent to the assistance of the free burghers of Ghent, but had retreated ignominiously before the armies of Flanders and France. The ill success of this expedition was attributed in England to the...
