The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times . gs took strong hold at Oxford and throughout England; itwas claimed that every other man you met was a Lollard, as his followers werecalled. Women as well as men became the preachers of the new sect. Lol-lardry had its own schools, its own books ; its pamphlets were passed everywherefrom hand to The clergy were freely satirized, and a petition sent toParliament in 1395, reflecting severely on the corruptions of the Church, andclaiming that its income, beyond what wa
The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times . gs took strong hold at Oxford and throughout England; itwas claimed that every other man you met was a Lollard, as his followers werecalled. Women as well as men became the preachers of the new sect. Lol-lardry had its own schools, its own books ; its pamphlets were passed everywherefrom hand to The clergy were freely satirized, and a petition sent toParliament in 1395, reflecting severely on the corruptions of the Church, andclaiming that its income, beyond what was necessary for working jDurposes,would enable the king to endow a hundred hospitals, and to support fifteenhundred knights and six thousand squires. This close estimate was adoptedby a Parliament of the next reign, though the proposed confiscation was notcarried out till that of Henry VIII. The first attempts at persecution only raised the spirit of the Lollards, fortheir cause was more popular than that of their opponents. Few sheriffswould arrest on the mere warrant of an ecclesiastical officer, and no royal court. 236 THE STORY OF OUR CHRISTIANITY. 237 would issue the writ for the burning of a heretic on a bishops requisi-tion. They grew yet bolder with this impunity, and delighted in outragingthe religious feeling of their day. One Lollard gentleman took home thesacramental wafer, and lunched on it with wine and oysters. Another flungsome images of the saints into his cellar. The preachers stirred up riotsby the violence of their sermons against the friars. The new sect hadits own way for a time in London, and was strong at Lincoln, Salisbury, andWorcester. When Henry IV. came to the throne in 1399, he found it expedient tosecure the support of the clergy by putting down their enemies. This kingwas the son of John of Gaunt, Wiclifs old protector ; but Archbishop Arundelmade it plain to him, that to make his throne secure, he must conciliate theChurch and sacrifice the Loll
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