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CONTENTS.
The Princess Dowager 466
Royal Proclamation 467
Symptoms of Disaffection in the Northern Counties 468
Queen Catherine and the Deputation of the Council 469
The Title of Princess Dowager 470
Catherine's Protest 474
Letter of Archbishop Cranmer to the English Ambassador in Germany 477
Martyrdom of Frith and Hewett 478
Retribution 479
 

 
CHAPTER VI.
 
THE PROTESTANTS.
 
Ecclesiastical Agitation in the Fourteenth Century 480
Disputes with the Papacy 481
Presentations to Benefices 482
Statute of Carlisle 483
First Statute of Provisors 485
Limitation of the Papal Prerogative 486
Boniface IX. 487
Excommunication of the Bishops 487
Conduct of the Two Houses of Parliament 489
Concessions of the Pope 490
The Lollards 491
Life of Wycliffe 492
Translation of the Bible 493
Lollard Theory of Property 494
Insurrection of Wat Tyler 495
Decline of the Influence of Wycliffe 496
Act de Heretico comburendo 498
Sir John Oldcastle 501
Termination of the Lollard Movement 502