In England from Wicliffe to Henry VIII - James Aitken Wylie

Chapter 8
Lollardism under
Henry V and Henry VI
THE martyrdom of Lord Cobham has carried
us a little way beyond the point to which we had
come in tracing the footprints faint and
intermittent– of Protestantism in England during
the fifteenth century. We saw Arundel carried from
the halls of Lambeth to be laid in the sepulchral
vaults of Canterbury. His master, Henry IV., had
preceded him to the grave by only a few months.
More lately Sir Roger Acton and others had
expired at the stake which Arundel's policy had
planted for them; and, last of all, he went to render
his own account to God.
Arundel was succeeded in the primacy by
Henry Chicheley. Chicheley continued in the chair
of St. Anselm the same policy which his
predecessor had pursued. His predecessor's
influence at court he did not wield, at least to the
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