On the upper Margin of the same Page, in a Hand of the early Part of the sixteenth Century, now nearly obliterated, may be traced the Words,
“Wiclefe roas a thousand thre hūderyd thre schorr and uiij.”
Over which Sir Robert Cotton has written,
“Anno 1368. Wicklif workes to the Duk of Lancaster.”
Nothing appears in the Volume to indicate the exact Year in which it was transcribed, but the Hand-writing would lead us to assign it to the latter End of the fourteenth or Beginning of the fifteenth Century. It is imperfect in some places, but contains a very valuable Collection of the Tracts of Wyclyffe, for a complete List of which the Reader is referred to some Papers that were published in the Year 1835, in the British Magazine[15]; where he will also find an Account of the Treatise, now for the first time printed, “On the last Age of the Chirche,” with an Exposure of certain Mistakes that have been committed respecting it. Several of the Remarks contained in those Papers have been transferred to the Notes, which will be found at the End of the present Volume.
