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CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS CONNECTED WITH WYCLIFF

a.d.

Facts in Wyclif's Life

Kings of England

Archbishops of Canterbury

Popes

Kings of France

Contemporary Events

1378
to
1380

1378. Cited to Lambeth; re-asserts his conclusions. Princess of Wales protects him. Londoners again interrupt. He withdraws to Lutterworth or Oxford.

Richard II.

SCHISM.
1378	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	R. Urban VI.
		A. Clement VII.

1378. England acknowledges Pope Urban. Courtenay excommunicates Lancaster's friends. Parliament sits at Gloucester. John of Gaunt

reconciled to the Church.

1379. Serious illness at Oxford. Friars call upon him for retraction. He defies them.

Sends his defence and challenge to Rome. Great literary activity: writes De Veritate Sanctæ Scripiuræ.

1379. Sudbury appointed Chancellor.

1380. Charles VI.

1380. New and more stringent poll-tax imposed. John of Gaunt Envoy to Scotland and Lieutenant of the Marches.

1381
to
1382

1381. Begins to lecture at Oxford against transubstantiation, and carries many with him. Inquiry by Chancellor Berton and a Council of twelve. Wyclif's doctrine condemned, and he is forbidden to lecture. Appeals to the King; John of Gaunt asks him to desist.

Writes his Confession or Apologia, claiming the authority of the earlier Church. Many replies from monks and others. Proceedings against the Poor Priests.

Richard II.

1381. W. Courtenay.

1381. Ruthless exaction of second poll-tax.

Peasants' Revolt; the march on London; terms granted. Cruel suppression, and repudiation of the terms by Parliament; 7,000 executed.

Serfdom virtually ended.

Courtenay Archbishop and Chancellor.

1382. Accused of complicity in the Peasants' Revolt. Cited by Courtenay before a Synod at the priory of the Black Friars in London. He does not attend (through illness or otherwise), but twenty-four of his conclusions are condemned, for heresy or error. (The Earthquake Synod.) His chief supporters condemned at subsequent meetings.

He re-asserts his conclusions at Oxford.

1382. Richard II. marries Anne of Bohemia.

Parliament calls on Courtenay to proceed against Wyclif and others. He assembles a Synod, sends Stokys to Oxford, reduces Rygge and others to submission.

Processional Litany in London, Whitsunday.

Convocation of St. Frideswide's, Oxford.