Bull to the University of Oxford against John Wycliffe
The letter in which Gregory XI rebuked the University of Oxford for tolerating the teaching of John Wycliffe, rector of Lutterworth and professor of Scripture, and ordered his arrest.
The translation dates the bull at Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome on 31 May in the sixth year of Gregory XI, following the Latin copy in the Fasciculi Zizaniorum (p. 244), whose editor notes that another copy reads “seventh”. The companion bulls to the archbishop of Canterbury and the bishop of London, which the Victorian edition of Foxe prints in Latin from the archbishop’s register (vol. 3, notes to pp. 6–7), are dated 22 May (the eleventh day before the Kalends of June) in the seventh year, and the editor adds the year 1377. The year given here is that one; the day is left open. It describes John Wycliffe as rector of the church of Lutterworth in the diocese of Lincoln and professor of the sacred Scriptures, compares his views to those of Marsilius of Padua, and orders the university to arrest him and hand him to the archbishop of Canterbury or the bishop of London.
The Sourcebook prints it on one page with the conclusions condemned at London in 1382 and with Wycliffe’s letter to Urban VI. See Wycliffe and the First English Bible.
Cited in
- about 1382, estimated date