History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . continent. In1525, or thereabout, one hundredand forty years and more after Wyc-lifs death in 1384, England shookoff her apathy and grasped the Prot-estant life-lines thrown to a dyingworld by an Erasmus, a Luther, aCalvin and a Knox. Puritanism in England dates farback of the Lollards, for one findsthat the Flemish weavers at Oxford,fifty years before that blow for lib-erty was struck through the Magna Charta, had assertedtheir rights to worship as they willed. Just as the fourteenth century dawne
History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . continent. In1525, or thereabout, one hundredand forty years and more after Wyc-lifs death in 1384, England shookoff her apathy and grasped the Prot-estant life-lines thrown to a dyingworld by an Erasmus, a Luther, aCalvin and a Knox. Puritanism in England dates farback of the Lollards, for one findsthat the Flemish weavers at Oxford,fifty years before that blow for lib-erty was struck through the Magna Charta, had assertedtheir rights to worship as they willed. Just as the fourteenth century dawned, the wave ofexcommunication centered about William of Occom, whoaided that movement which blos-somed into virile life, first systema-tically forcing the issue between nopriesthood and free inquiry, asagainst sacramental ecclesiasticism. The influence of the martyr, Wal-ter Lollard (founder of the Lol-lards, burned for heresy at Colognein 1322) speeded John Wyclif of Oxford Uni-versity became a Separatist, hefound the Statute of Provisors ofEdward III had sown Lollard seed.
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