...accordingly. To Lutterworth they come, Sumner, Commissary, Official, Chancellor, Proctors, Doctors, and the servants (so that the remnant of the body would not...Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is disfersed all the world over." — FULLER. —"The Church History of Britain." — Book IV. The delightful...

...Fuller, the church historian, in a passage which brings quaintness to the borders of sublimity, ' hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn...of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which is now dispersed all over the world.' The principles of the Romish church against which Wickliffe particularly...

...were then cast into the Swift — a river running close by the town. " Then the brook," says Fuller, " conveyed his ashes into Avon ; Avon into Severn ;...seas; they into the main ocean. And thus, the ashes of Wiclif are the emblem of his doctrine, which was dispersed the world over." Tradition yet marks out...

...up and burnt, and the ashes thrown into the Swift, a brook running hard by. " Thus this brook hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn...seas, they into the main ocean. And thus the ashes of Wycliffe are the emblems of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over." f It is much...

...thrown into the Swift. " Thus," as Fuller has ingeniously expressed It, "this brook (the Swift) hat conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon Into Severn, Severn...the narrow seas, they into the main ocean : and thus fhf asket qf Wycl'jfc are the emblem of kit doctrine, which now it ditpersed all the world over." Lutterworth...

...This brook," says Fuller, " conveyed his ashes to the Avon, Avon to the Severn, Severn into the naiTow seas, they into the main ocean ; and thus the ashes...of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine which is now dispersed all the world over." So " mightily grew the word of God and prevailed," that efforts...

...ashes of his bones were cast into the brook Swift. ' Thus,' as old Fuller quaintly expresses it, ' this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, then into the main ocean ; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now...

...should say, named the Swift, for " this brook conveyed them into . Avon, the Avon into the Severn, the Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean ; and thus the ashes of Wycliffe were the emblem of his doctrine, which is now dispersed all the world over." CHAPTER XI. THE...

...then cast " into the Swift, a neighbouring brook running hard by. Thus this brook," he continues, " has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, and they into the main ocean ; thus the ashes of Wickliffe are an emblem of his doctrine, which is...

...throwing the ashes into a brook ; of which transaction Fuller nobly says : " This brook hath conveyed the ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the...of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which is now dispersed all the world over." Chaucer deserves to be venerated as a patriot quite as much as...