. The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times. 240 THE STORY OF OUR CHRISTIANITY. 241 messages to his brethren : secret meetings were held, and a revolt on a largescale organized. Few will blame the Lollards for conspiring to defend theirfaith ; but rebellion against the lawful king, especially on merely religiousgrounds, was seldom successful in England. The rising was put down in Fields, January 6th, 1414. This broke the power of Lollardry, and. CROUCH OAK ADDLESTONE, UNDER WHICH WICLIF PREACHED. henceforth
. The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times. 240 THE STORY OF OUR CHRISTIANITY. 241 messages to his brethren : secret meetings were held, and a revolt on a largescale organized. Few will blame the Lollards for conspiring to defend theirfaith ; but rebellion against the lawful king, especially on merely religiousgrounds, was seldom successful in England. The rising was put down in Fields, January 6th, 1414. This broke the power of Lollardry, and. CROUCH OAK ADDLESTONE, UNDER WHICH WICLIF PREACHED. henceforth trials and executions were frequent. Near forty, including SirRoger Acton, a knight, and Beverley, a preacher, were promptly hanged orburned near the spot where they were taken in arms. Had they enteredLondon and effected a junction with their friends there, the result might have 242 THE STORY OF OUR CHRISTIANITY. been different; but the leaders were taken one by one, and all further attemptat resistance prevented. Cobham bad again escaped, and lived as an outlaw for near four yearslonger. In December, 1417, be was caugbt on tbe Welsb border, sent to Londonby Lord Powis, dragged on a hurdle, with insult and barbarity, to St. GilesFields, and there hung in chains over a slow fire. In 1424 William White, a godly man and eminent preacher, was burned atNorwich, and with him or soon after, two others, Abraham of Colchester andJohn Waddon. Many others suffered; and Lollardry survived only in scatteredand secret groups, whose sol
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