Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, February, 1885

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.

47

Bar. iii. 20. The last words are “in place of them. The young …” rendered in the Geneva version – “Other men are come up in their steads. When they were young they saw the light.”

48

Forshall and Madden’s edition of Wycliffe’s Bible. Preface, pp. 17, 18.

49

Godwin’s Catalogue of the Bishops of England.

50

Fuller, Book IV. cent. xv.

51

Wycliffe and Hus. From the German of Dr. Johann Loserth, Professor of History at the University of Czernowitz. 1884.

52

Luther’s Preface to the Letters of Hus.

53

See Epilogue to Henry IV. Part II.

54

Hallam’s Constitutional History of England, chap. ii. 57, 58, 6th ed.

55

Knox’s History of the Reformation in Scotland, being volume first of his Works, collected and edited by David Laing. Edinburgh, 1846.

56

Shirley’s Introduction to Fasc. Zizan., pp. 45, 46.

57

Speed’s Chronicle, p. 672 – ed. 1632.

58

Preface to A Catalogue of the Original Works of John Wycliffe: 1865.

59

M’Crie’s Life of John Knox, Period I.

60

Milton, Paradise Lost, Book VI.

61

A True Account of the Rye House Plot, by Thomas Sprat, Bishop of Rochester, 1685.

62

State papers, Charles II., June 1683 – “A Particular Account of the Situation of the Rye House.”

63

Rye House Papers. Examination of Robert West of the Middle Temple. A special collection among the State Papers. It may be remembered that when this collection was examined an original treatise of Milton was discovered among the documents – a find which led to Macaulay’s essay on Milton.

64

Rye House Papers. Examination of Josiah Keeling and Robert West.