The Repressor, it would appear, notwithstanding
the moderation which pervaded the whole work, ex-
posed the bishop to no suspicion, or at least to no
open displeasure, frcmi the Church. He was still high
in prosperity and honour; and in 1450 was promoted
from the see of St. Asaph to that of Chichester. It
was not till after his translation that he His "Treatise of
composed his Treatise of Faith, which Faith."
proved the source of aU his subsequent afliictions ;
for it was here that the temper of concession and of
candour began to manifest itself in a tone which
sounded most ominously in the ears of the Papacy.
In the first place, he had the boldness to g^ censures the
assail, with as little mercyas Wiclif him- preaching of the
self, the contemptible style of preaching Mendicants.
