...multiplied like suckers from the root of a tree, and everywhere filled the compass of the kingdom, insomuch that a man could not meet two people on the road, but one of them was a disciple of Wiclif."2 Soon after Wiclifs death in 1384, Richard the Second had contest wtth issued...

...must have been very numerous, and read with great eagerness, for it was said by an enemy of Wickliffe, that a man could not meet two people on the road but one of them was a disciple of Wickliffe. " This John Wickliffe hath translated the Gospel into English, which Christ...

...So rapidly did his doctrine spread after his death, that a writer of that day has angrily recorded, that " a man could not meet two people on the road but one of them was a disciple of John Wicliffe." It will be remembered that this translation, which was derived from the...

...cast away the ashes. But that was because his doctrines had spread so fast that it was said, " You could not meet two people on the road but one of them was a disciple of John Wickliffe." Amid all the difficulties of writing at that day the copies made were...

...all that could be done to oppose the truth, it spread so rapidly, that a Romish historian complains that 'a man could not meet two people on the road but one of them was a disciple of John de Wycliffe.' The fifteenth century was one of intense activity. The collapse of the...

...growing from the root of a tree ; they everywhere filled the kingdom, so that a man could scarcely meet two people on the road but one of them was a disciple of Wycliffe." He expresses regret that inadequate measures were taken to check the spreading...

...manuscript Bible was put in circulation, it was so generally known that one of his contemporaries says, 'that a man could not meet two people on the road but one of them was a disciple of Wickliffe. And the reason is, this Master John Wickliffe hath translated the Gospel out...

...term, signifying to sing hymns to God; and increased so rapidly, that a contemporary writer affirms, "A man could not meet two people on the road, but one of them was a disciple of WICLIF."' The vehemence with which they declaimed against the vices of the clergy, and...

...growing from the root of a tree. They every where filled the kingdom; so that a man could scarcely meet two people on the road but one of them was a disciple of Wickliff." Knighton also says, " They so prevailed by their laborious urging of their doctrines,...

...multiplied like suckers from the root of a tree and everywhere filled the compass of the kingdom, insomuch that a man could not meet two people on the road but one of them was a disciple of Wyclif." The accession •of the House of Lancaster was inauspicious to their cause ; Henry...