. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . kespeares time, sometimes from a favourableand sometimes from a hostile standpoint. There is contemporary authorityfor statinsr that Shakespeare had intended to do likewise, but substituted thename of the builder of Caister Castle, in deference to the protest of LordCobhara. Oldcastles descendant See Gairdner and Spedding, ? Studies inEn^ilish History (1S81), and ilv. James Taits article on Oldcastle in the
. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . kespeares time, sometimes from a favourableand sometimes from a hostile standpoint. There is contemporary authorityfor statinsr that Shakespeare had intended to do likewise, but substituted thename of the builder of Caister Castle, in deference to the protest of LordCobhara. Oldcastles descendant See Gairdner and Spedding, ? Studies inEn^ilish History (1S81), and ilv. James Taits article on Oldcastle in the? Dictionary, of National Bioriruuite to thepolitical or social. Under the House of Lancaster the Lollardswere valued as the allies of the Opposition in Parliament. In1410 the Knights of the Shire sent up a petition for the contisca-. OF , i \>TI,I, XKAl; KiJCUESTEE, KENT, SH. . s tion of the lauds ot the bishops and greater abbots: a proposalfrc(]uently repeated by the Lollards, notably iu the rebellion ofJack Straw in 1431. When King Henry V. came to the throne,a more determined policy was adopted against the Lollards. Thedanger with which they menaced the State had been set out inan influentially supported petition in 140(): now, in 1414, an Actwas passed which armed the secidar officers of justice with newjjowers co-ordinate with those of the spiritual authorities, andstrengthened the procedure under the Act of 1401. With thisStatute legislation against the Lollards is completed. The sect TheOxford Lollards. ThelrDecay. 400 THE CLOSE UF THE MIDDLE AGES. [1399 soon lost still more its reliyious clKiracteristics, and, except in thecase of a tew iiMrr men, its adherents became confounded in thecommon henl of rebels against social order. If any thread oftradition connect
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