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John Wyclif.
Chronology
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| CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS CONNECTED WITH WYCLIFF | ||||||
| a.d. | Facts in Wyclif's Life and relating to him | Kings of England | Archbishops of Canterbury | Popes | Kings of France | Contemporary Events |
| 1382 to 1384 |
1382. (Cont.) Greater literary activity. Collects his sermons; writes a number of English tracts, in which he denounces the Papal crusade, the conduct of the Friars, etc. Engaged on English translation of the Bible.
First stroke of paralysis. |
Richard II. | W. Courtenay. | Charles VI. | 1382. (Cont.J Bishop Despencer's expedition(papal crusade) to Flanders ordered by Urban.
Bulls and plenary indulgence proclaimed in England. Active assistance of the Friars. | |
| 1383. Persecution of his friends. Some fall away. Continued literary activity. Writes the Trialogus.
Cited to Rome. Excuses himself on the ground of inability to travel. |
1383. Crusade from May to September; disastrous result. The Scots raid Northumberland. John of Gaunt retaliates.
Chaucer assisted by Lancaster. Inclines to Church reform and ecclesiastical poverty. Gower in his Latin and English poems attacks the peasants, Lollardism, and the policy of Richard II. (1381-97). | |||||
| 1384. Has a second stroke at Lutterworth, Dec. 28th, and dies Dec. 31st. | ||||||
| 1385 to 1401 |
1385. Buried in the church at Lutterworth.
Second text of his Bible prepared by Purvey. (The Pleshy Bible, copied for Thomas Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, murdered 1397, was valued amongst his effects at 40s. It is now in the British Museum.) |
Richard II. | 1385. Commons demand secularisation of Church property. | |||
| 1388. Courtenay (under parliamentary powers) proceeds against heretics and seizes books. Lays Leicester under interdict, '89. | ||||||
| 1389. R.Boniface IX. | ||||||
| 1390. Statute of Provisors enlarged. | ||||||
| 1391. Statute of Mortmain confirmed. | ||||||
| 1393. Second and more stringent Statute of Præmunire. Peace between England and France. | ||||||
| 1394. A. Benedict XIII. | ||||||
| 1395. Parliament petitions against alien clerics. | ||||||
| 1396. T.Arundel. | 1396. Archbishop Arundel opens severely against the Lollards. Accused of intrigues and banished, '97. | |||||
| 1397. Arundel presides over a Synod which condemns eighteen conclusions of Wyclif. | ||||||
| 1399. Henry IV. | 1399. Duke of Lancaster dies. Richard II. deposed. | |||||
| 1401. Jerome of Prague and others carry many works of Wyclif to Bohemia. | 1401. Statute De Hcerelico Comburendo. Sawtre burned. | |||||
