wychffe

Updated: January 23, 2026

In his bitter prejudice against John of Gaunt and his clerical allies, such as Wychffe and the mendicants, the monk is so outspoken that his book was suppressed, and most manuscripts leave out the more offensive passages. Before that its contents, like that of other St. Alban's annals, were partially known through the fifteenth century compilation under the name of a St.

T. F. (Thomas Frederick) Tout - The History of England: From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377)