Lollardy
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Sep 11, 2026
Bruce GordonGUEST
And so now England is different.
Bruce GordonGUEST
And you mentioned the Lollard Bible, which Wycliffe himself was not directly involved in, but was the Lollard culture.
Bruce GordonGUEST
This then...
Bruce GordonGUEST
the beginning of the 15th century, is condemned as heresy.
Bruce GordonGUEST
And so, therefore, there is a prohibition of the creation of English translations.
Bruce GordonGUEST
So England is rather anomalous here, where this culture is flourishing on the continent.
Bruce GordonGUEST
In England, there's a clampdown on, because translation becomes associated with the Lollards and heresy.
Bruce GordonGUEST
And that plays into Tyndale's story of being pursued as a heretic, as a translator.
EleanorHOST
And to be fair, to be fair to the church on this, it's like, yeah, the people who were making vernacular Bibles were absolutely like calling for the abolition of the church or at least a reorganization of it in such a way that it would have been unknowable As the church.
EleanorHOST
So, yeah, it was like, you know, because it's the Lollards and the Hussites who really started off.
EleanorHOST
And they're both like, yeah, fuck you, people.
EleanorHOST
Like, the Lollards are like, I don't even fucking believe in transubstantiation, right? Like, it's a pretty big fucking thing.
EleanorHOST
Yeah.
EleanorHOST
Yeah.
Simon WainwrightNARRATOR
Perhaps the little Isaac, the child of such aged parents, seemed odd and strange to the young half-breed Egyptian.
Simon WainwrightNARRATOR
no person is so much a foreigner to his fellow men as a man born from above to live by faith upon the promise of god ought to seem the most proper and natural thing in the world but it is not so esteemed on the contrary men count those to be strange beings who believe in god and act upon such a belief wretched boys in the streets still hoot at foreigners and men of the world still jest at true believers because of their unworldly spirit and conduct to us this is a testimony of good for our lord said if ye were of the world the world would love his own but because ye are not of the world therefore the world hateth you in a thousand ways many of them so petty as to be unworthy of mention the believer can be made to bear trials of cruel mockings and he ought to be prepared so to do After all, it is but a small matter to be persecuted nowadays, for the fires of Smithfield are quenched, the Lollard's Tower contains no prisoners, and not even a thumbscrew remains in use.
Simon WainwrightNARRATOR
Courage, good brother! Even should you be ridiculed, no bones will be broken.
Simon WainwrightNARRATOR
And if you are brave enough to despise contempt, even your sleep will not be disturbed.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
First of all, the victorious Catholics entered upon a career of persecution which awoke deep disgust in the mind of the people.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The old laws against the Lollards were revived by Parliament, and the chief men amongst the reformers were put in prison.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Their condemnation and execution soon followed, and men were burnt at the stake in different parts of England to produce a widespread feeling of fear.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Hooper, Ridley, Latimer, and Cranmer, who had been bishops, were all burnt.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
"Nay," cried the priest, "this is a foul hearing.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
John-a-mendall, a right Lollardy word, and black of hue as for an omen.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
Sirs, this knave e'er likes me not.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
But it importeth rather to take counsel.
Carl ManchesterNARRATOR
The Vaudois were put down.
Carl ManchesterNARRATOR
The Lollards were put down.
Carl ManchesterNARRATOR
The Hussites were put down.
Carl ManchesterNARRATOR
Even after the era of Luther, wherever persecution was persisted in, it was successful.
Michael FazioNARRATOR
that Christ had been a poor man, and that men should help each other, not only in saving souls, but in healing sickness and relieving pain.
Michael FazioNARRATOR
In the fifteenth century the Lollard came to say that the Church was too rich, and that it had become blind to the truth, and Walter Brut said that men were to be justified by faith in Christ, not by the worship of images or by the merit of saints.
Michael FazioNARRATOR
In the sixteenth century came the Protestant, and the sway of Rome over Wales came to an end.
Michael FazioNARRATOR
Bishop Morgan translated the Bible into Welsh, and John Penry yearned for the preaching of the Gospel in Wales.
Kara ShallenbergNARRATOR
Wycliffe translated the Bible from Latin into English and encouraged the people to read it.
Kara ShallenbergNARRATOR
His followers were called Lollards, and they helped the people at the time of Wat Tyler's rebellion in the reign of Richard II.
Kara ShallenbergNARRATOR
The heads of the Church hated the Lollards, and Henry IV, who wanted to please the priests, made a law saying that anyone who would not believe just what the Pope said he must believe should be burned to death.
Kara ShallenbergNARRATOR
This was a very wicked law, and it marked the beginning of another struggle for freedom in England, that is, the struggle for freedom of conscience, which means freedom to think and do what one feels to be right in matters of religion, instead of being forced to think and do as someone else says is right.
Kara ShallenbergNARRATOR
For some time now, very little had been heard of the Lollards, but the things which Wycliffe had taught had not been forgotten.
Kara ShallenbergNARRATOR
After printing was discovered and books became cheaper, people began to read and, in consequence, to think much more than they had done before.
Kara ShallenbergNARRATOR
The more people read and thought, the more difficult some of them found it to believe just what they were ordered to believe by the Pope.
speaker_5NARRATOR
The Vaudois were put down.
speaker_5NARRATOR
The Lollards were put down.
speaker_5NARRATOR
The Hussites were put down.
speaker_5NARRATOR
Even after the era of Luther, wherever persecution was persisted in, it was successful.
speaker_1GUEST
They stuttered and stammered.
speaker_1GUEST
They were called the Lollards because they couldn't speak very well, but they presented the gospel.
speaker_1GUEST
They were persecuted wherever they went because they were telling the simple story of Jesus.
speaker_1GUEST
Wycliffe met his end being burned at the stake, hated so much that even forty years later, they dug up his grave and threw his bones into the river.
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