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Such faults could be gently judged at the tribunal in the Blackfriars' hall. Wycliffe's was a far more serious crime.
He was sufficiently striking in appearance when alone to attract attention, and Miss Wycliffe's evident partiality now made him a special mark for speculative glances. He began to gain an appreciation of her absolutely entrenched position in that society in which the older women were inclined to pet her and the older men indulged in gallant little speeches.
Thus perished Wycliffe's labour, not wholly, because his translation of the Bible still remained a rare treasure; a seed of future life, which would spring again under happier circumstances.
Thus Jerome, called of Prague, on his return from the English university, gave a new impulse to the study of Wycliffe's writings, bearer as he was of several among these which had not hitherto travelled so far.
It was time, for any one who cared to save his life, as Edward did; for a solemn decree against Wycliffe's writings had just been fulminated at Rome; and while Henry of Bolingbroke sat on the throne, England lay at the feet of the Pope. She was a little girl of about ten years old, and remained in the charge of her mother, the King's sister.
It may be wondered that Caxton, like many of the foreign printers, did not begin with, or at least some time during his career print, the Scriptures, especially as Wycliffe's translation had already been made. But there were good reasons. Religious persecution ran high, and the clergy were extremely jealous of the propagation of the Scriptures among the people.
But so far as known, the first complete Bible in English was the work of John Wycliffe, assisted by Nicholas de Hereford whom some would name first in this partnership, though the product of their joint labors is known as "Wycliffe's Bible." John Wycliffe, the "Morning Star of the Reformation," was born near Richmond, Yorkshire, about 1324.
And when some sparks of Wycliffe's own fire were blown over the half of Europe even as far as Bohemia the kindred fires which had long burned in spite of all suppression were quickened into a living and a spreading flame.
He brought home with him a copy of Wycliffe's contraband New Testament, and from the day he bought that interdicted book till the day of his death, Strong Sandy Gordon never let his purchase out of his own hands.
In a few years we shall find the Oxford champion abandoning the Latin language of universal culture, and appealing to the people in homely English. With Wycliffe's entry upon his wider career, it is hardly too much to say that Oxford ceased to be merely a part of the cosmopolitan training ground of the schoolmen, and became in some fashion a national institution.
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