[528] Ibid. 220 seq. (full analysis of the speech). The original is printed in Edw. Brown’s Fascic. Rer. Expetend. (1695), Vol. II, under the title, Defensorium Curatorum. A short summary in old English will be found in Mon. Franc. II.
[529] Cf. statute of the University against ‘wax-doctors’ (A. D. 1358); Mun. Acad. 207-8; ‘Nam pomis et potu, ut populus fabulatur, puerulos ad religionem attrahunt et instigant;’ (from Richard de Bury’s Philobiblon), quoted on p. 42.
[530] Mun. Acad. 204.
[531] Wood, Annals, I, 475 (W. Folvyle, Cambridge Minorite); Twyne, MS. XXII, f. 103 c (W. Woodford). The Oxford Dominican (?) who writes under the pseudonym of Daw Topias says in answer to this accusation, ‘To tille folk to Godward, I holde it no theft.’ Polit. Poems, II, 83 (R.S.).
[532] Rolls of Parliament, Vol. II, p. 290.
[533] Rolls of Parliament, Vol. II, p. 290.
[534] Ibid. Vol. III, p. 502, § 62.
[535] Lechler, J. v. Wiclif, I, 319, 374, 585 seq.
[536] Ibid. 588.
[537] Twyne, MS. XXI, 502; from Woodford’s Quaestiones de sacramento altaris contra Wyclefum, qu. 63.