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University of Oxford, (a) The present was gratefully 

 acknowledged by the different patrons to whom it was 

 presented, and by all the learning of England. 



Fifty years after its publication it was included at Rome 

 in the list &quot; Librorum Prohibitorum,&quot; in which list it is 

 now included in Spain. 



The vanity of these attempts to resist the progress of 

 knowledge might, it should seem, by this time be under 

 stood even at the Vatican. 



How beautifully are the consequences of this intolerance 

 thus stated by Fuller :(b) &quot;Hitherto the corpse of John 

 WicklifFe had quietly slept in his grave about forty-one 

 years after his death, till his body was reduced to bones, 

 and his bones almost to dust. For though the earth in 

 the chancel of Lutterworth, in Leicestershire, where he 

 was interred, hath not so quick a digestion with the earth 

 of Aceldama, to consume flesh in twenty-four hours, yet 

 such the appetite thereof, and all other English graves, 



et litteraires. Tome premier. A Dijon, de I lmprimerie de L. N. Frantin, 

 an 8 de la Republique Francaise.&quot; 



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Folio .... Haviland . . 

 . Mettayer . . 

 . Haviland . . 

 . Moirardum 

 . Wynyard . . 

 . Ravestein . . 

 . Gerard . . 



1623 



1624 4to. . 



1633 Folio 



1645 12mo. 



1652 12mo. 



1662 12mo. 



1765 8vo. . 



1779 8vo Stahel 



1829 8vo Riegelii 



Latin. 



. London 1st edit. 



. Paris 2nd edit. 



. London 3rd edit. 



. Dutch 4th edit. 



. Dutch 5th edit. 



. Dutch 6th edit. 



. Venice 7th edit. 



. Wirceburgi . . . 8th. 2 vols. 

 . Nuremberg 9th. 2 vols. 



Translations. 



1640 English . . G. Watts Oxford Folio. 



1674 English . . G. Watts London Folio. 



1632 French . . . Dugast Paris 4to. 



8th year Rep. . French . . . Frantin Dijon 8vo. 



(a) Copies of the presentation letters, with the answers are in the preface 

 to vol. viii. 



(/&amp;gt;) Ecclesiastical History. 



