. John de Wycliffe : a monograph, with some account of the Wycliffe mss. in Oxford, Cambridge, the British museum, Lambeth palace, and Trinity college, Dublin . End of the Suit about Canterbury Hall. 137 and accepted on this occasion amounted to two hundredmarks, about a thousand pounds of our present money.^Edward the Third was now sinking under the infirmitiesof age, and under the weight of the many cares which hisattempts to possess himself of the crown of France hadbrought upon him. The royal officers were not in a con-dition to be insensible to the value of money, and whatthe old king did
. John de Wycliffe : a monograph, with some account of the Wycliffe mss. in Oxford, Cambridge, the British museum, Lambeth palace, and Trinity college, Dublin . End of the Suit about Canterbury Hall. 137 and accepted on this occasion amounted to two hundredmarks, about a thousand pounds of our present money.^Edward the Third was now sinking under the infirmitiesof age, and under the weight of the many cares which hisattempts to possess himself of the crown of France hadbrought upon him. The royal officers were not in a con-dition to be insensible to the value of money, and whatthe old king did in this matter, he did, we may suppose,with little scrutiny. Where the inducement to secure hissignature was so weighty, artifice, if necessary to that end,would not be wanting. It is not improbable that Wycliffehad by this time become weary of the whole business,and did not care to oppose proceedings of any kind inrelation to it. Objects of far greater moment than thequiet possession of a wardenship were now to occupy histhoughts. From this time, his views as a reformer takea wider range, and he gives himself with a new ardour tothe diffusion of CHAPTER VII. WYCLIFFE AS PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY.
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