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  • In 1366 = John Wiclif =, a graduate of Oxford and member of the English

    The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy Robert Elliott Flickinger

  • Sacred to the Memory of John Wiclif the earliest Champion of

    From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

  • John Wiclif himself was a scholar of Oxford, master of that famous Balliol College which has had such a list of distinguished masters.

    The Greatest English Classic 1912

  • At Oxford, in the Convocation of 1408, it was solemnly voted: "We decree and ordain that no man hereafter by his own authority translate any text of the Scripture into English, or any other tongue, by way of a book, pamphlet, or other treatise; but that no man read any such book, pamphlet, or treatise now lately composed in the time of John Wiclif ... until the said translation be approved by the orderly of the place."

    The Greatest English Classic 1912

  • a popular moralist and satirist, by John Wiclif, the rector of

    From Chaucer to Tennyson 1886

  • He was a friend both of Chaucer and John Wiclif. [

    Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Herbert Story

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