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An abridgement of the book of acts and monuments of the ChurchAn abridgement of the booke of acts and monumentes of the Church
An abridgement of the book of acts and monuments of the Church: written by that Reverend Father, Master John Fox: and now abridged by Timothy Bright, Doctor of Physic, for such as either through want of leisure, or ability have not the use of so necessary an historyAn abridgement of the booke of acts and monumentes of the Church: written by that Reuerend Father, Maister Iohn Fox: and now abridged by Timothe Bright, Doctour of Phisicke, for such as either through want of leysure, or abilitie haue not the vse of so necessary an history
London: printed by I. Windet, 1589
Volume 1 › Book 5: The fifth Book.Volume 1 › Book 5: The fifth Booke.
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The vice-chancellor the same time was Robert Rigs, the proctors John Huntman, and Walter Dish, who then (as far as they durst) favoured the cause of John Wycliffe, & that side: in so much that the same time & year 1382. when certain sermons public should be customably appointed, at the feast of the Ascension, and of Corpus Christi, to be preached in the cloister of S. Frisewide, now called Christ church, before the people, by the Vice-Chancellor, & the Proctors: the doing thereof was committed to Phillip Repington, 1& Nicholas Hereford, so that Nicholas should preach on the Ascē sion day, & Repington on the Corpus Christi day. In which sermon on Corpus Christi day, Phillip preached, (among other matters) that the Pope and Bishops ought not to be ⟨p. 281⟩recommended above temporal Lords, and that in all moral matters, he would defend Wycliffe, as a true Catholic Doctor. And finally, his sermon concluded, he dismissed the people with this sentence, saying: I will in the speculative doctrine, as pertaining to the matter of the Sacrament of the altar, keep silence till such time as GOD otherwise shall instruct and illuminate the hearts of the Clergy. Against this Philip, Peter Stokes a Carmelite,2 was a great adversary. And a while after, the Vice-Chancellor and Brightwell went up to London, to purge themselves, and their adherents of the accusations of this Friar, and being examined upon the articles of John Wycliffe, they did consent, that they were worthily condemned: and so were with somewhat ado, discharged, and commanded seek out the favourers of John Wycliffe: whereof Nicholas Hereford and Philip Repington, having privy warning by the Vice-Chancellor, conveyed themselves away, and fled to the Duke of Lancaster,3 who yet forsook them for fear, or somewhat else, not expressed. So soon as they were fled, the Archbishop directeth letters to the Vice-Chancellor, and to the Bishop of London, named Robert Braisbrocke, to excommunicate them, and to lay for them both in Oxford, and in London, that they might be apprehended. This was the fourteenth of July, Anno 1382 after which Repington in the same year, the three and twē tieth of October, was reconciled to the Archb. and so was John Ashton.