As these points will occasionally meet us again m
the course of this narrative, it may be proper to seize
the opportunity of remarking, that the opinions of
Wiclif, relative to ecclesiastical property, appear to
have been carried to a point, which lay very far be-

* So he deflcribefl himself in hie DeterminatUm : " Ego cum aim
pecuUaria Regis CleriettSf talis oualie, volo libenter tnduefe habitum
re8poi»Lli& defendendo et suadenoo quod Rex potest justd dominari
regno Anglis, ne^ando tributum Romano Pwtifici."

t Lingara, voL iv. p. 215, note 194.
X Papa, dum fuerit in peccato mortali, secundum theologot, cant
dominia Lewis, p. 381



132 LIFE OF WICLIF.
yond the limits of moderation. It is fit that the
reader should be prepared for this : and it is likewise
fit that his attention should be fixed op^ the causes
which often drove the Reformer to a dan^rous au-
dacity of statement, in his discussions of this subject.
