[ [37] In so far as the printing of this work is concerned, the reproach of England was wiped off by the Clarendon Press in 1869; but it was a German, Dr. Lechler, who edited this great work, the “Trialogus.”
[ [38] Shirley, Introduction to Fasc. Zizan., p. 47.
[ [39] Shirley’s Catalogue of the Original Works of John Wycliffe. Preface, p. 6, Oxford: 1865.
[ [40] Milman’s Latin Christianity, Book XIII. chap. vi.
[ [41] Illustrium Majoris Britanniæ Scriptorum Summarium in Quasdam Centurias Divisum.
[ [42] Select English Works of John Wycliffe. Introduction, vol. iii.
[ [43] This is the first of “the most rare and refined works” that collectively make ‘The Phœnix Nest,’ published in 1593. Reprinted in vol. ii. of ‘Heliconia,’ edited by T. Park, 1815. The preface bears a marked resemblance to the famous epilogue to 2 Henry IV.
[ [44] Shirley: Preface to a Catalogue of the Original Works of John Wycliffe. The “Trialogus” must have been written, some have it, between 1382 and 1384. This is shown by Vaughan and Lechler.
[ [45] Knighton, quoted by Dr. Buddensieg.
[ [46] The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocryphal Books, in the earliest English versions, made from the Latin Vulgate, by John Wycliffe and his followers. Edited by the Rev. Josiah Forshall and Sir Frederick Madden. In four volumes. Oxford—at the University Press: 1850.