In England from Wicliffe to Henry VIII - James Aitken Wylie

and Arundel had planted were still blazing when
the latter breathed his last, and was carried to lie
beside his former master in Canterbury Cathedral.
The martyrdoms which succeeded the Lollard
assembly in St. Giles' Field, took place in January,
1414, and the archbishop died in the February
following. "Yet died not," says Bale, "his
prodigious tyranny with him, but succeeded with
his office in Henry Chicheley."
Before entering on any recital of the fortunes of
English Protestantism under the new primate, let us
pursue to a close the story of Sir John Oldcastle the
good Lord Cobham, as the people called him.
When he escaped from the Tower, the king offered
a reward of 1,000 marks to any one who should
bring him to him, dead or alive. Such, however,
was the general estimation in which he was held,
that no one claimed or coveted the price of blood.
During four years Cobham remained undisturbed
in his concealment among the mountains of the
Welsh Principality. At length Lord Powis,
prompted by avarice, or hatred of Lollardism,
discovering his hiding-place, betrayed him to his
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