. The Antiquarian repertory : a miscellaneous assemblage of topography, history, biography, customs, and manners ; intended to illustrate and preserve several valuable remains of old times. they are, however, it must be allowed, plau-sible and inoenious. &^ I am. Sir, your most obedient servant,^^^^^^^^^^^ P. B. PORTRAIT OF JOHN WICLIFF. THIS Portrait was engraved from the original Picture at Knole, inthe Collection of his Grace the Duke of Dorset. The life of this re-markable personage is so well known, as to render a repetition hereunnecessary. The following Extract from Stow, of the circums
. The Antiquarian repertory : a miscellaneous assemblage of topography, history, biography, customs, and manners ; intended to illustrate and preserve several valuable remains of old times. they are, however, it must be allowed, plau-sible and inoenious. &^ I am. Sir, your most obedient servant,^^^^^^^^^^^ P. B. PORTRAIT OF JOHN WICLIFF. THIS Portrait was engraved from the original Picture at Knole, inthe Collection of his Grace the Duke of Dorset. The life of this re-markable personage is so well known, as to render a repetition hereunnecessary. The following Extract from Stow, of the circumstancesattending his citation before the Bishop of London at St. Pauls, wehope will prove acceptable to our readers i Li the meane time the Duke ceased not with his fellowes toimagine how he might get to passe which he had long conceived inhis minde ; for he sawe that it would be hard for him to obtaine hispurpose, the Church standing in his full state, and very dangerous toattempt publickely to do those things, the lawes and customes ofLondon being in force, wherefore he laboured first to overthrow aswell the liberties of the Church as of the City : for this cause he called unto. lokn l!_ 0 O o Engraved trom iKeOtioirtcu. ttctu,re at,i\.aouebr^lK,eOoiXerUon. of Ink (ira^ce IK-e D mke of D orsel t 645 unto liim a certaine Divine, who many yeare before in all his acts inthe Schooles, had inveyed against the Church, for that he had beendeprived by the Archbishop of Canterbury from a certaine benificethat he unjustly (as was said) was incundient upon within the Citie ofOxford, his name was John Wiclifte, who with his Disciples were ofthe common people called Lollards, they went bare-footed andbasely clothed, to wit, in coarse russet garments downe to tlie heeles;they preached, especially against Monks and other religious men thathad possessions, &c. Amongst other things he denyed the Bishop tohave authoritye to excommunicate any person, and that any Priestmight absolue su
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