Wycliffe's contest with Owtred and William Wynham ( or Wyrinham or Binham ) of Wallingford Priory and St Albans, the Benedictine professor of theology at Oxford, were formerly unknown, as were the earlier ones with William Wadeford.

During the late 14th century and early 15th century it was a bastion of Wycliffe's supporters, for which college principal William Taylor was ultimately burnt at the stake, and principal Peter Payne fled the country.

Although Wycliffe's Bible circulated widely in the later Middle Ages, it had very little influence on the first English biblical translations of the reformation era such as those of William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale, as it had been translated from the Latin Vulgate rather than the original Greek and Hebrew ; and consequently it was generally ignored in later English Protestant biblical scholarship.

After John Wycliffe's death, Archbishop William Courtenay began to defend his beliefs in 1382.

He completed his translation directly from the Vulgate into vernacular English in the year 1382, now known as Wycliffe's Bible.

If this pronouncement seems hardly justified, now that Wycliffe's writings are in print, it must be borne in mind that not all his philosophical works are extant.

Wycliffe's Bible is the name now given to a group of Bible translations into Middle English that were made under the direction of, or at the instigation of, John Wycliffe.

The corner of Hammer Hall Lane and Catte Street ( which had a postern in the wall called Smithgate ) was taken by Black Hall, which was the place of John Wycliffe's imprisonment by the Vice-Chancellor around 1378.

In the late 14th century, John Wycliffe produced the first complete English language Bible — often called Wycliffe's Bible.

However from around 1382 he lived with Wycliffe at Lutterworth, Leicestershire, and became, along with Nicholas of Hereford and John Aston, one of Wycliffe's most devoted disciples.

It was at Lutterworth that Purvey undertook, probably with Wycliffe's concurrence if not at his suggestion, to revise the 1382 English translation of the Bible done by Wycliffe and Nicholas of Hereford.

John Wycliffe's entrance upon the stage of ecclesiastical politics is usually related to the question of feudal tribute to which England had been rendered liable by King John, which was not paid for thirty-three years until Pope Urban V in 1365 claimed it.

Wycliffe's influence was never greater than at the moment when pope and antipope sent their ambassadors to England to gain recognition for themselves.

The literary achievements of Wycliffe's last days, such as the Trialogus, stand at the peak of the knowledge of his day.

The beginning of the Gospel of John in a manuscript of Wycliffe's English translation ( MS. Hunter 191 ) ( first line: ‘ In þe bigynnyng was / þe word & þe word / was at god / & god was / þe word .’)

Such a postholder would really be based at County HQ ( in the case of the real life Devon and Cornwall Constabulary the HQ is at Exeter ) and not be so free to get in Wycliffe's way.

Even twenty years after Wycliffe's death, at the Oxford Convocation of 1408, it was solemnly voted that no new translation of the Bible should be made without prior approval.

Since the Rheims version was itself to be consulted by the translators working for King James a number of readings from Wycliffe's Bible did find their way into the Authorized King James Version of the Bible at second hand.

But above all they clung to Wycliffe's doctrine of the Lord's Supper, denying transubstantiation, and this is the principal point by which they are distinguished from the moderate party.

Wycliffe's Bible appears to have been completed by 1384, with additional updated versions being done by Wycliffe's assistant John Purvey and others in 1388 and 1395.

John Woodbridge I, seen in it the beginnings of Wycliffe's assaults upon Rome and monasticism.

In the days of the mission to Bruges Owtred still belonged to Wycliffe's circle of friends.

He had not yet broken with the mendicant friars, and from these John of Gaunt chose Wycliffe's defenders.

Wycliffe's stand with respect to the ideal of poverty became continually firmer, as well as his position with regard to the temporal rule of the clergy.

The books and tracts of Wycliffe's last six years include continual attacks upon the papacy and the entire hierarchy of his times.

Yet there are passages which are moderate in tone ; G. V. Lechler identifies three stages in Wycliffe's relations with the papacy.

To distinguish between what the pope should be, if one is necessary, and the pope as he appeared in Wycliffe's day was the purpose of his book on the power of the pope.

An element of the contest appears in Wycliffe's doctrine of the Lord's Supper.

The whole was revised by Wycliffe's younger contemporary John Purvey in 1388.

Even in Wycliffe's time the " Lollards " had reached wide circles in England and preached " God's law, without which no one could be justified.

Yet his friend and protector John of Gaunt was the most hated by the rebels, and where Wycliffe's influence was greatest the uprising found the least support.

The citadel of the reformatory movement was Oxford, where Wycliffe's most active helpers were ; these were laid under the ban and summoned to recant, and Nicholas of Hereford went to Rome to appeal.

The Anti-Wycliffite Statute of 1401 extended persecution to Wycliffe's remaining followers.

None of Wycliffe's contemporaries left a complete picture of his person, his life, and his activities.

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