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Wycliffe was another cause of difference between Lancaster and Courtenay.

In 1377 the reformer appeared before Archbishop Sudbury and Courtenay, when an altercation between the duke and the bishop led to the dispersal of the court, and during the ensuing riot Lancaster probably owed his safety to the good offices of his foe.

Having meanwhile become archbishop of Canterbury Courtenay summoned a synod, in London, the so-called " Earthquake Synod ", which condemned the opinions of Wycliffe ; he then attacked the Lollards at Oxford, and urged the bishops to imprison heretics.