Wycliffe Ballads

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Excerpt from Wycliffe Ballads: A Biography in Verse, With Other Poems and Ballads of Protestantism John Wycliffe was born about 1324 in Wycliffe village, near Richmond, Yorkshire. At age of 14 entered Oxford University. Became successively Fellow of Merton, Warden of Balliol, Head of Canterbury Hall, and Lecturer in Theology. Was made rector of Fillingham, 1361, rector of Lutgershall, 1368, and in 1375 rector of Lutterworth, in Leicestershire, where he died, 1384, having received the Master's call while celebrating Divine Service in his parish church. Pilgrim to our Isles of England, drawn, for love of England's name, To her fields of former conflict, to her fanes of ancient fame, To the great ancestral mansions of her nobles and her squires, To the marvels which the genius of her modern life inspires, To the homes and haunts seclusive of her sages and her bards, Where his time-transfigured legends lone age-dim Tradition guards, About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.