THE LOLLARDS:

a Tale,

FOUNDED ON THE

PERSECUTIONS WHICH MARKED THE EARLY PART

OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.

BY THE AUTHOR OF

THE MYSTERY, OR FORTY YEARS AGO; AND OF

CALTHORPE, OR FALLEN FORTUNES.

LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

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THE LOLLARDS.

CHAPTER I.

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« Chains are as feathers, bondage nought,

“ When a pure breast its witness lends,
" To light that conscious heaven of thought,
“ Where innocence with suffering blends."

GRATTAN
The unguarded expressions which had
THE
fallen from John Huss in his prison,
coupled with the attempted escape, to
which he had been led by the artifices of
Michael de Causis, appeared, to a meeting
of the cardinals and bishops, holden on
the following day, to supply such une
quivocal proofs of guilt, that to call him
before them seemed useless; and they
actually deliberated whether or not they
should proceed at once to condemnation
and sentence. A notary who attended