In England from Wicliffe to Henry VIII - James Aitken Wylie

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lessons which these early disciples had yet to learn. The bold step of the Wicliffites threw back the movement, or we ought rather to say, made it strike its roots downward in the nation's heart. The priests took the alarm. Arundel, Archbishop of York, posted with all speed to Ireland, where Richard II. then was, and implored him to return and arrest the movement, which was growing to a head. His pious wife, Anne of Luxemburg, a disciple of Wicliffe, was dead (1394), and the king readily complied with Arundel's request. He forbade the Parliament to proceed in the matter of the Lollard petition, and summoning the chief authors of the "conclusions" before him, he threatened them with death should they continue to defend their opinions. But Richard II. did not long retain a scepter which he had begun to wield against the Lollards. Insurrection broke out in his kingdom; he was deposed, and thrown into the Castle of Pontefract. There are but few steps between the prisons and the graves of princes. Richard perished miserably by starvation, and was succeeded by Henry IV., son of that Duke of Lancaster who had 8
een the friend of Wicliffe. The cause which the father had defended in the person of its great apostle, found no favor in the eyes of the son. Henry had mounted the throne by Arundel's help, and he must needs repay the service by devotion to the Church of which Arundel was one of the main pillars. To consolidate his power, the son of John of Gaunt sacrificed the Wicliffites. In his reign was passed a law adjudging men to death for religion—the first of the sort to stain the Statute-book. It enacted that all incorrigible heretics should be burned alive. The preamble of the Act sets forth that "divers false and perverse people of a certain new sect of the faith of the Sacraments, damnably thinking, and against the law of God and the Church, usurping the office of preaching," were going from diocese to diocese, holding conventicles, opening schools, writing books, and wickedly teaching the people. To remedy this, the diocesan was empowered to arrest all persons suspected of heresy, confine 9
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Page 3 and 4: made; He descended to erect a Templ
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Page 11 and 12: words of the body of Christ, the br
Page 13 and 14: taken a pledge of the soil, and it
Page 15 and 16: March, came, Arundel again ascended
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Page 19 and 20: Chapter 2 The Theology of the Early
Page 21 and 22: great lights which God had ordained
Page 23 and 24: them, and, by them all their after-
Page 25 and 26: Thorpe: "Sir, if I should do as you
Page 27 and 28: many sentences of his learning are
Page 29 and 30: Arundel: "Tell out plainly thy beli
Page 31 and 32: Arundel: "Whom callest thou true pi
Page 33 and 34: "Sir," said he, addressing the prim
Page 35 and 36: truths. The first was Scripture, as
Page 37 and 38: understandings were emancipated fro
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Page 41 and 42: Chapter 3 Growth of English Protest
Page 43 and 44: was sure that "his Holiness" would
Page 45 and 46: It was now to be seen how much the
Page 47 and 48: ever; and the scandals and miseries
Page 49 and 50: This opened the door of Oxford to t
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Page 55 and 56: The mob derided it; power frowned u
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The king "hung, as it were, in a ba
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with which they had accompanied the
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From the hour that the stake for Pr
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The last year of Henry's life was s
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Chapter 5 Trial and Condemnation of
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prince put on the crown he put off
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With characteristic frankness, Lord
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whole obedience, and submit me ther
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has all the simplicity and spiritua
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done many horrible sins; good Lord,
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that it is God's body." They angril
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clearly determined by the Church of
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ody; and the Begging Friars are the
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holy St. Paul rejoiced in no other
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sweet and affable voice, the tears
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Vicar on earth and head of the Chur
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Chapter 6 Lollardism Denounced as T
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the very men who would have sowed t
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The gates of the city had been clos
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and treated us to an account of thi
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Chapter 7 Martyrdom of Lord Cobham
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stake, fled into exile, as Bale tes
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and Arundel had planted were still
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pinioned behind his back, but his f
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the noblest spirits that have ever
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or on a scaffold, around which mobs
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same extent, for neither was Chiche
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old, fond of display, lavish in his
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oration by a reference to the unpre
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transport of men and ammunition. Mo
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presented themselves around his ste
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of St. George, the second with the
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Had these talents and energies been
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produced against him by the Mayor o
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judges, that they may "be acquit or
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stronger faith doomed them indeed t
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ought not to worship the holy men w
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sharp shower ere he went to supper.
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Chapter 9 Rome's Attempt to Regain
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anded as a heretic. Witness the sti
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manner of sins, one sin only except
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lessens the humiliation of a rebuff
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either law or royal belonging to it
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Such were the terms in which Pope M
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Chapter 10 Resistance to Papal Encr
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moved the annulling of Papal exempt
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commission to the young king and th
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Excommunication was to be the penal
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to strike only at the Act of Praemu
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not on the ground of piety or learn
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enacting edicts for the conviction
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which it nourished the heart, and t
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Chapter 11 Influence of the Wars of
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converted the Vega around the Moori
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waste the treasure and the blood of
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dwelling and sanctuary, and inflict
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field of war. Why has history forgo
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at once the limit of her seat and t
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decimated the population. The conte
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consummate their testimony in the f
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quickened. The nobility of France a
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was parted into two; the one branch
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of the Hussite. The arms of the Boh
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