Wycliffite

How the heck did they get their hands on a Wycliffite bible?

Even I have my limits

The levelling effect of these ideas, however, was unmistakably felt as in the doggerel of John Ball, the mad Wycliffite priest of Kent,

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917

Glasgow about 1422, in all probability the Scottish Wycliffite whose letter to his bishop has recently been unearthed in a Hussite MS. at

The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics

But he was a stern opponent of heresy -- Lutheran as well as Wycliffite -- a subtle defender of Roman doctrine; and in dedicating to

The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics

The various Anglo-Saxon translations and the Wycliffite versions are largely detached from the main line of development.

Early Theories of Translation

He omits the Wycliffite and Protestant divines mentioned by

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"

The Prologue to the second recension of the Wycliffite version, commonly attributed to Purvey, emphasizes, under cover of the same apparent theory, the claims of the vernacular.

Early Theories of Translation

During the Wycliffite troubles the order took the leadership of the Catholic party, the first opponent of Wyclif being the Provincial of the Carmelites, John Cunningham.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux

Controversy was inaugurated by Guy de Perpignan, general from 1318-20, author of "Summa de hæresibus"; the subject was taken up anew at the time of the Wycliffite troubles and ultimately led to the important works of Thomas Netter de Walden, the "Doctrinale" and

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux

No doubt the "copes" of the friars, to which we find so many references in the Wycliffite literature and in the writings of

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery