The Mendicant Friars--Their Disorders and Popular Indignation-- Wickliffe--His Success--Speeches of the Peers against the Papal Tribute--Agreement of Bruges--Courtenay and Lancaster--Wickliffe before the Convocation--Altercation between Lancaster and Courtenay--Riot--Three Briefs against Wickliffe--Wickliffe at Lambeth--Mission of the _Poor Priests_--Their Preachings and Persecutions--Wickliffe and the Four Regents, page 77 CHAPTER VIII. The Bible--Wickliffe's Translation--Effects of its Publication-- Opposition of the Clergy--Wickliffe's Fourth Phasis--Transubstantiation--Excommunication--Wickliffe's Firmness-- Wat Tyler--The Synod--The condemned Propositions--Wickliffe's Petition--Wickliffe before the Primate at Oxford--Wickliffe summoned to Rome--His answer--The Trialogue--His Death--And Character--His Teaching--His Ecclesiastical Views--A Prophecy, page 86 CHAPTER IX. The Wickliffites--Call for Reform--Richard II--The first Martyr-- Lord Cobham--Appears before Henry V--Before the Archbishop--His Confession and Death--The Lollards, page 97 CHAPTER X. Learning at Florence--The Tudors--Erasmus visits England--Sir Thomas More--Dean Colet--Erasmus and young Henry--Prince Arthur and Catherine--Marriage and Death--Catherine betrothed to Henry--Accession of Henry VIII--Enthusiasm of the Learned-- Erasmus recalled to England--Cromwell before the Pope--Catherine proposed to Henry--Their Marriage and Court--Tournaments--Henry's Danger, page 106 CHAPTER XI. The Pope excites to War--Colet's Sermon at St. Paul's--The Flemish Campaign--Marriage of Louis XII and Princess Mary--Letter from Anne Boleyn--Marriage of Brandon and Mary--Oxford--Sir Thomas More at Court--Attack upon the Monasteries--Colet's Household--He preaches Reform--The Greeks and Trojans, page 114 CHAPTER XII. Wolsey--His first Commission--His complaisance and Dioceses--Cardinal, Chancellor, and Legate--Ostentation and Necromancy--His Spies and Enmity--Pretensions of the clergy, page 122 CHAPTER XIII. The Wolves--Richard Hun--A Murder--Verdict of the Jury--Hun condemned, and his Character vindicated--The Gravesend Passage-boat-- A festival disturbed--Brown tortured--Visit from his Wife--A Martyr--Character of Erasmus--1516 and 1517--Erasmus goes to Basle, page 126 BOOK XVIII. THE REVIVAL OF THE CHURCH. CHAPTER I.