“_De simonia sacerdotum_, lib. 1. _Heu magni sacerdotes in tenebris._” In another place[12] he gives it the Title under which it is now published, and describes it thus[13]:— “_De ultimâ ætate Ecclesiæ_, lib. 1, _Sacerdotes, proh dolor! versantes in vitiis._” It is by no means improbable, therefore, that a second Copy of the Tract may still exist, under some Disguise, in our public or private Libraries. The Volume from which the Treatise is now printed, is preserved among the MSS. of Archbishop _Ussher_, in the Library of the University of _Dublin_. It appears to have been once the Property of Sir _Robert Cotton_, whose Autograph is found on the lower Margin of the first Page, in his usual Form of Signature[14]: “_Robert Cotton Bruceus._” On the upper Margin of the same Page, in a Hand of the early Part of the sixteenth Century, now nearly obliterated, may be traced the Words, “_Wiclefe roas a thousand thre hūderyd thre schorr and uiij._” Over which Sir _Robert Cotton_ has written, “_Anno 1368. Wicklif workes to the Duk of Lancaster._” Nothing appears in the Volume to indicate the exact Year in which it was transcribed, but the Hand-writing would lead us to assign it to the latter End of the fourteenth or Beginning of the fifteenth Century. It is imperfect in some places, but contains a very valuable Collection of the Tracts of _Wyclyffe_, for a complete List of which the Reader is referred to some Papers that were published in the Year 1835, in the _British Magazine_[15]; where he will also find an Account of the Treatise, now for the first time printed, “On the last Age of the Chirche,” with an Exposure of certain Mistakes that have been committed respecting it. Several of the Remarks contained in those Papers have been transferred to the Notes, which will be found at the End of the present Volume. [Illustration] ¶ The last Age of the Chirche. By John Wyclyffe, S. Th. P. M.ccc.luj. [Illustration] The last age of the Chirche.