An Apology for Lollard Doctrines

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AN APOLOGY

LOLLARD DOCTRINES,
ATTRIBUTED 10 WICLIFFE.

WITH AN ISTRODUCTION AND NOTES,

JAMES HENTHORN TODD, DD. V.PatLa,

LONDON:

PUINTED FOR TAR CAMDEN SOCIETY,
COUNCIL
THE CAMDEN SOCIETY,
von THE YEAR 1841-3,

Prosident,
‘THE HIGHT MON. LORD FRANCIS EGERTON, 3.P.

‘THOMAS AMYOT, ESQ. ERS. ‘thea 8A, Director
‘THE RIGHT HON. LORD BRAYEROOKE, FSA.
JOHN BRUCE, ESQ. FSA, Deane.

JOUN PAYNE COLLIER, FSG, FSA.

©. PURTON COOPER, E80, 2.C, DCL, PRS, FAA.
T. CROFTON CROKER, B80. FAA, MRJA,

SIR HENRY BLLIS, KH, PRS, Bee. SA.

JAMES ONCHARD HALLIWELL, BSQ. #8, FS.
‘THE BEV. JOSEPH HUNTER, FSA.

SIR FREDERICK MADDEN, LF, ERS, FSA
JOHN HERMAN MERIVALE, ESO, FSA.

‘THE REV, LANCELOT SHARPE, M.A, FSA,
THOMAS STAFLETON, FSG, PSA,

WILLIAM J, THOMS, ESQ, PALA, Sercterg.
THOMAS WRIGHT, F5Q. MA, FSA,
INTRODUCTION,

Ir will naturally be expected that the following trea-
tise should be introduced tn the seader by some account
of the manuseript from which it has besa transeribad, and
‘some statement of the grounds upon which it hes been
attributed to the pen of Wioklife

‘The manuscript ia preserved in the Ubrary of Trinity
College, Dublin, emong the valuable remains of ancient
Urerutare collected by the edlebrated Avehbishop Uasher,
fend prosented by King Charlee II. to the University.*

tis on vellum, containing 219 leaves, ench 6% inches
by 433 8 foll page bsviog 31 or 32 lines, very neatly and
sceurately writzen, in the usual secretary hand of the
fourteenth or beginning of the Gfleenth century. The
lat leaf ia tach wormed, und the volume ends impee-
featly.

Tea oaatents are as follow: —

1 tee marked io the Library, Cle ©, Tab. 5, No.
AMD, H06e Me ¢
1. A tuact entitled Credo (being am exposition of the
reed); beginning, Its aooth that bileue is grounde of
alle vertues.” Fol, 1, «. This pene Sn attributed to Wick-
[Be by Bishop Dale, See Lewis's List, No. 162.*

TH A short Commentary on the Pater roster; begin
aniug, “We schall bitene that chie pater noster that Crist
hymsil toehith to alle evisten men, paseith alle ofhere
preiers” Fol. 2,

TIL A Communtary oa the dor Maria; beginning,
“Men greten commonly oor lady goddis moder, and we
supponen thet this gretyog saueth reany men.” Fol, 3, b,
fee Lewis's List, No. 164.

TY, OF the “ij onesies," Tip teatie it divided into
seven chagters, each weating of a distinct heresy. At
the end! we read, *Expliciunt vii hereses contra. putet
roster.” Tt begins thus: “For falte men rooltiplien
bokis of the dice, now rendyng bilews, and now elout-
sage eresiea.” Pol. 4, b.

‘The Lord's Prager in the formar tract was divided into
seven petitions or exyogy,” as is ubual with divlaes and
‘ah ofthe seven heresies desorbed in the present tract
Thnx reference to one of the seven axyngs” of the Pater
roster. The tract appears to bate been especially

+ Life of Wi OxE 1080, p06. Hake, Coot i saa.
wrgopuerton. vi

Girected ageinst the Vigne: ax may appear from the
heresies" it desevites, which sre aa fallors —-

1 That spool prlerayplled Ui bar plats 4 Betta than geae-
aly an 100 mar? wd of rene in eter ta

‘9, "Fad thee protein Leda of gtd votre «
sil thas fala Bea moa of Leal chiohe, thot God al hove glade
{han ooy eters some men”

‘9. "Thal Get cao Bowe the Wille of ont Lond Got to brynge
seule te beaen, 8 anor of her rely

“de That top acl oat io ue maar Breed, Dut elthey aoe, of
clout witbontn ony snbiee.”

1 Toatprstn hace power wo mncile mea of sym”

‘iat mem of yluse religions be more thick aweed"+
onellla of Hes neve oti, cht

hal neday he ened”

‘The treot ends fol, 6, b. ‘The next two leeves are
lank.

V. A trestize on the ten Commandments; beginning,
“© Alle maner of men sebulden bolde goddis biddyngis.”
Fol 9,0.

"This is the tract entitled by Bale “Compendium X.
Preceptoruim,” which he deseribes as beginning Cyjue-

4 AMtuding to the Continneraio pro scr tn the Canon of the
Ma, *Memente Domine fexloraa, femuacamgne tara
[Ny which aporia] mention mma Ly the piel af dhe porons Dor
hom be intends to prey.

1 ae Bich jo more ssmoronay.
vi mTaopuonion.

cangue conditions fuerint homines® Tt in Aivided into
twa paris, corresponiing to the tro Tables of the Jaw,
the fist comssting of twelve, the second of twenty-eight
ehaptere

“VL. A treatioe on “Feith, Hope, and Chante” beghn-
wing,“ For i ie seid in oldpng_ of our hlidey, thet we
stulden covupie the ane in prechyng, avd deuout hecing
of the inwe of God," Fol. 37,0, This tract is divided
Into six chaptara; and is probably the game os that men-
toned by Lewis, No. 274. ‘There is a copy of iin a v0-
lume preserved in the Kbrary of New College, Oxford}

VEL. A treot entitled at the end “Opera miserioordie
corporalis;” beginning, If a man wer rur tht he shulde
‘to morowe come bifor a fuge, and other lese or wynne
alle the good that he It, asd eke his If drt.”
Fo. 80, . Tein divided into si chapters.

‘Tale is alzo in the volume Belonging to New Collage,
Oxford, ond is entitled, “The seven merkys of merey
bodily." Tt ie mentioned by Bale and Lesiat

“VITL. “Opers carttin;” beginning, “Sith we sbulden
serve our parishens in spritual clues, as thei seruen 7+ in

Bala, Cent dep. 454, Legits Gata Wo.
73, p18. Comp abo, No-278, p. 214.

1p 208 No
INTRODUCTION,

bodtli sustenance.” ol. 35, a. This tuet is divided
into four chapters. It in attsbuted to Wielife by Bale
and Tara, and in to be found im the colume, already
rontioned, belonging to New Oollege*

TK. “Septem pecoata cepitelia:" a treatise on the
seven deadly ring, beginning, Sith blewe tchlth ve that
every yuel in other syane, or cometh of enue, ayune
shulde be fled es almaner of yuelc” Fol. 28, a

‘The seven eins ave thus enumerated: « Pride, Entye,
Wraththe or Ire, Slenthe, Courts, Clotere, Lechesie.”

‘This tract is divided into thixry-two chapters and ends
on Fol. 63, 6. There are copies of it, socording to Lewis,
in the Bodleian Library, and in the King’s Library}

X. © De Ecclesia et membris gun” beginning, “Cristie
hische in his spouse, that hath thre parte, the fist pert
lain bi, with Crist hed of the chirche, and contepneth
sungelis and blesid men thet now ben'ia heuene.” Fo.
63,b.

‘This troot ie ascribed to Wichifle under the tiles De
seclesis dominio, ana De eclsia Cathaicat It a divided
{nto ten chapters, and ends fol. 75, b, where we read
“lxplidt tnotatus de ecclesia et meabrisefus.”

Bale sid, Lani, No 58, p 206, and Nn 286, p20.

Now, pain
No 68, ple, Haber, p42,
XL “De apostasia et dotatione ecelesise” beginning,
“Sith he eristen an is boldca to come [i.e ta fallow]
Crist, and whoever faylith in ths ik apostata.” Fol. 76,

This tract ia vided into four chapters, end ends fal.
20, b. with the nots, “Bxplicit tactarns de epostasia et
dotacione ecclez.”

The recond chapter is headed im rubvic De dotacone
ces, sui pethaps the same which Bale mentions
wader the same tte as a distinct tract, and which he tells
vw begins Ulrum elerusdebucrit dotationem* in the MB.
before us the second chapter begins, “As to the youes-

una and dowyng of cleskis, bacue abulde teche 1s that
ie doith hem harm to kepe Gratis reiglown, and harm
tw lewid men.”

XIL. “Trnctatos He pucuto fers; beginning, * For
rmaay berca heuy tha Sera ben clei! peend or spocitie,
anticriats ox fendi or ouy siche name.” Fol. #2, a,

‘This tact is divided into eight chapters it je full of
ceuious matter on the controversy with the religious
order, but does not eesm to hare been known to Tale,
Lewia, or Baber, It ends fo. 95, b.

IIL “Of the sight woes thet God wished to free”
eginning, Crist Bildeth va be wane wih then fe pene

* Lomia, Not, yo.
axtRODCCTON. x

‘hetis that comen in clothing of seepe, ana ben mohues of
rmueyo, and hes ben specially men of thes newe ori.
Pol. 06, 5,

“This iv another tract of great interest, unknown to
Bale; it consists of an clitarste parallel batween the
Seribes and Pharisees of the Goope), and the mendicant
ordere of the fourteenth century. Tt ends fol 101, a,
vith the oote, “Her enden the eighte wouis thet God
vnhid to fron Amen.” This is probebly the sane
tract which Lewin daseeibes a a commentary 00 the text
Va vob Bor ot Phoria hypocrite of which be sys
there isa copy in the King’ Libeay.

XIV. “‘Hxposiio evangei M94. Heres Jesus de
templo, Se." beginning, “This gospel tellith wyche wine
dow that is hid to many men; and speciali for this cause,
that itis not al red fn the chitche.” Fol 101,

This in the tract entitled by Rale De Cireto et Ani.
vito, of which ther are copie, actos to Lewis, ia
{he Hhmases of Tnity College aud of Corpus Christ Cole
lege, Cambridge +

Tn commenting on the vein, “And thasnesohat be
greet tribulation what caner wea newer bifor fro the

4 ei, Now 277, pa.
4 Tawi, Novo. pole.
xi netpopverion.

biginnyng of the world,” our author applies the prophecy
to his own times, In the fallowing words :—“But 50 ge-
neta stejf o2 now ls among many rewwes, was neuere
herd bifore fro the bigyanyng of the world, for al our
‘west lond is with oo pope, or with the tother, and he that
{is with the ton, hatith the tother ith alle hise.”

‘This fixes the date of the tract to the period of the
iprvat Wostarn Schiem which began A.D. 1278,

Teends fol. 16, b, with the note “Explicit Evange-
um.”

XV. “Of antieris, and his meynes,” [i.e his train,
family, ov followers; *] begioning, “Dauid seth, Lord ett
thous lawe maker vpon hem. Hit eemyth to me, eeith
‘Austys, that thin signifith antlers.” Fol. 117, 4.

Bole mentions a tract under the title De Aniichristo
‘et memibris, in two books ; it begins, as he tell us, with,
‘the words, “ Quermadmodum Douuns Jesus ondinavit,"4
and therefore ia most probably not the work now before
‘us, but the eraet ueually known by dhe title, “How Anti-
eheist and Mis clerks trwvailen to destroy Holy Wei"
which has been published by the “Religious Tract

1 Myoes of Ming, Sum the French Mais. See Nene’ Glowary
sn vom a.
hee Lowe, No.8, p12
ary