. A history of mediaeval and modern Europe for secondary schools. rities at length stirred up the Government to halt theirpropaganda by the standard means of stake and fagots (1401).As a sect they disappeared, yet not so certainly their tradition 1 His name is also spelled Wycliffe and several other ways. In this age manyEnglish spellings seem to have been decidedly phonetic. 2 The teaching of the Catholic Church that the bread and wine in the com-munion, upon the consecration by the priest, really become the actual body andblood of Christ. 3 See p. 186. 4 The word is commonly derived from the
. A history of mediaeval and modern Europe for secondary schools. rities at length stirred up the Government to halt theirpropaganda by the standard means of stake and fagots (1401).As a sect they disappeared, yet not so certainly their tradition 1 His name is also spelled Wycliffe and several other ways. In this age manyEnglish spellings seem to have been decidedly phonetic. 2 The teaching of the Catholic Church that the bread and wine in the com-munion, upon the consecration by the priest, really become the actual body andblood of Christ. 3 See p. 186. 4 The word is commonly derived from the German Lollen (to sing), from thehymn-chanting habits of the Wiclifites. THE LATER MIDDLE AGES IN ENGLAND 185 and influence, which may have made many Englishmen readyfor the great religious revolt started by Luther. 100. The rising of the peasants and the rule of the House ofLancaster. The worthless Edward II was followed by the braveand victorious Edward III (1327-77). The story of his wars in |jHnmiKte^aUfammq^qtat<#)~ Qinipilvebut j)Jt£ oi fa^ i ftta (M. -£..xT. CORONATION OF AN ENGLISH KING IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY(Either Edward II or Edward III). (From a sixteenth-century miniature at Cambridge, England) France is told At home in England the middle ofhis long reign was marked by the frightful Black Death,which in 1349 swept away one third to one half of the popu-lation of England. The direct misery caused was appalling, 1 Chapter xv. 186 HISTORY OF EUROPE and almost as severe was the wretchedness arising from theunsettling of all trade, industry, and commerce. Where werethe human hands left to till the fields and reap the harvests?The prices for necessities rose, and the demands by the surviv-ing peasants for higher wages naturally rose also. Such inso-lence on the part of valiant laborers, taking advantage of thedearth to require more pay, filled the nobles and gentry con-trolling the Government with savage wrath. The famouskl Statute of Laborers then p
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