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135: 333:"And if any person ... such books in the form aforesaid do not deliver, then the diocesan of the same place in his diocese such person or persons in this behalf defamed or evidently suspected and every of them may by the authority of the said ordinance and statute cause to be arrested". If they failed to abjure their heretical beliefs, or relapsed after an initial abjuration, they would "be burnt, that such punishment may strike fear into the minds of others". 22: 316:
The statute declared there were "divers false and perverse people of a certain new sect…preach and teach…divers new doctrines, and wicked heretical and erroneous opinions contrary…of the Holy Church, and…they make unlawful conventicles and confederacies, they hold and exercise schools, they make and
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urged "that this wicked sect, preachings, doctrines, and opinions, should from henceforth cease and be utterly destroyed", and declared "that all and singular having such books or any writings of such wicked doctrine and opinions, shall really with effect deliver or cause to be delivered all such
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According to some scholars, English Church authorities condemned editions of the Wycliffite translations not only because they deemed the commentary sometimes included with the work to be heretical, but because they feared a vernacular translation of the Bible from the Latin
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lieth upon a conviction before the Ordinary, but that the most convenient and sure way was to convict a heretic before the High Commissioners." His editor adds that the writ is abrogated by the
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movement, which was considered seditious by the state and heretical by the Church. The Lollards went beyond Wycliff in several areas, explicitly rejecting the authority of the Church.
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The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Knt. 1572–1617: In English, in Thirteen Parts Complete; with References to All the Ancient and Modern Books of the Law, Volume 7
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The orthodoxy of the faith of the church of England asserted, and provision made against the oppugners of the same; with the punishment of Hereticks.
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books and writings to the diocesan of the same place within forty days from the time of the proclamation of this ordinance and statute".
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lieth" upon a conviction for heresy before an "Ordinary" court. According to Coke the magistrates "certify the King, that a writ
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write books, they do wickedly instruct and inform people, and as such they may excite and stir them to
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clarified the procedures by which heresy charges could be brought and prosecuted by state officials.
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statutes ever enacted in England, affecting preaching and possession of Lollard literature.
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phrase meaning "Regarding the burning of heretics". An alternate spelling is
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Although partial English translations and metrical paraphrases of the
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was an Act of the English parliament, not by the Church.)
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wrote several books that inspired what would become the
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Acts of the Parliament of England concerning religion
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