John Knox and the Church of England: HIS WORK IN HER PULPIT, AND HIS INFLUENCE UPON A Monograph founded upon several important Papers of "The author seems unquestionably to have added some very important details to the history of the English Prayer Book, and the facts now for the first time made known to us ought to have an interest for many besides theologians."- Academy. "A very important volume. Every student of English Church history must henceforward count this volume as an authority to be consulted."-Spectator. C. KEGAN PAUL & CO., 1 PATERNOSTER SQUARE, LONDON. AUTHOR OF "JOHN KNOX AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND C. KEGAN PAUL & CO., 1 PATERNOSTER SQUARE 1878 AUTHOR'S PREFACE. SCIENCE is an international good. It is not confined by territorial boundaries, nor restricted by the ties of nationality. Nowhere does it stand written that only an Englishman can suitably write the history of England or a portion of it. It may easily happen that a German may have access to sources of English history from which the Englishman may have less opportunity to draw. It is from such sources that I believe myself able to offer not a little which may serve to supplement and enrich, and even to correct, the knowledge which has hitherto been current respecting the history and the characteristic genius of Wiclif. All the men whose Wiclif-researches have hitherto acquired importance and authority, have in every instance been able to bring to light, and make use of for the first time, fresh documentary materials. It was so with John Lewis in the last century, who wrote the first independent biography of Wiclif. The chief value of that book-a value still fully recognised at the present day—lies not in its style of execution, but purely in the mass of materials which it brought together and published. In the present century, Dr. Robert Vaughan, by his works upon the same subject, increased our historical knowledge of Wiclif to such a degree, that these works have been everywhere recognised as authorities, and used as a storehouse of information. The chief distinction of these writings was the extensive use made in them, by quotation and otherwise, of Wiclif's manuscript Tracts, and Sermons. More recently, at the suggestion of the late Professor Shirley, these English writings of the Reformer have been published by the Clarendon Press, which had already, in 1850, given to the world a model edition of the Wiclif Translation of the Bible. The Select English Works of John Wiclif, edited in excellent style by Thomas Arnold, M.A., of University College, Oxford, contains a complete collection of the Reformer's English sermons, and a selection of his English tracts, popular pieces, and fly-leaves-a service to literature and religious history which calls for the warmest acknowledgments. It was as an integral part of the same projected collection of Select Works of Wiclif, that the author of the present work brought out in 1869 a critical edition of the Trialogus, upon the authority of a collation of four Vienna MSS. of the work, accompanied by the Supplementum Trialogi, which had never been in print. It was the treasures of the Imperial Library of Vienna which put him in a position to execute that critical task. When at the beginning of the 15th century the Wiclif spirit took so strong a hold of Bohemia and Moravia, Bohemian hands were busily employed through several decades of years in multi |