Lollardy.

Lollardy, the native English heresy vigorously keep out of sighted since the early fifteenth-century, did not die with its suppression in the wake of the rebellion of Sir John Oldcastle in 1414 A hundred later Lollard beliefs remained circulating albeit in varied forms. The chiefly consistent features in this eclectic religious rule were the possession and reading of English translations of the Scriptures, a sacramentarian view of the Eucharist, and an frequently vehement anticlericalism. With few exceptions Lollardy was the save from decay of the unlearned; based forward the religious fringes of towns and the

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