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The assertion is made, without substantial 

 support, that in 1382 Wycliffe was summoned 

 to appear before the Blackfriars' Council at 

 Oxford, known as the "earthquake council, "and 

 there condemned because of his teachings. 

 It is uncertain if Pope Urban VI summoned 

 him to Rome in 1384, as he is said to have 

 done; at least, Wycliffe never went to Rome. 

 He died of a paralytic stroke, and was buried 

 at Lutterworth. In 1415 the Council of Con- 

 stance decreed that his remains be burned; 

 this decree was carried out in 1428, by com- 

 mand of Pope Martin V, and the ashes of the 

 great leader were scattered upon the waters of 

 the River Swift. 



His influence extended chiefly through John 

 Huss to Martin Luther and other reformers of 

 the Continent. Most of his writings were in 

 Latin, but in addition to the translation of the 

 Bible the following English collections are ex- 

 tant: Three Treaties of John Wycliffe, Se- 

 lect English Works of Wyclij, and The English 

 Works of Wyclij, collected respectively by 

 Todd, T. Arnold and F. D. Matthew. 



Consult Trevelyan's England in the Age of 

 Wycliffe; the English translation of Loserth's 

 Hnas und Wiclif. 



Related Subject*. The reader is referred to 

 the following articles in these volumes: 

 Huss, John Reformation 



Luther, Martin Vulgate 



Agricultural Building of th 

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THE STORY OF WYOMING 



YOMING, wio'ming, a state of the 

 Rocky Mountains region, popularly known as 

 the EQUALITY STATE because it has always ex- 

 tended the privilege of suffrage to men and 

 women on equal terms. Its name is derived 

 from an Indian word meaning great plains, 

 ng to the broad, high plains lying be- 

 tween the mountain ranges of the state. Wy- 

 oming has rich resources, but owing to the 

 lack of facilities for transportation and the 

 Mimll population its development has fallen 

 far short of its possibilities. 



Size and Location. The state lies between 

 Montana and Colorado, in the broadest part 

 of tin- Rockies. In >h .p. it is a rectangle, its 

 boundaries following tin- meridians of longi- 

 tude and parallels of latitude. Having an area 

 of 97,914 square miles, of which 320 square 

 miles are water surface, it ranks eighth in size 

 among the states of th. imon. Its area is 

 almost twice as great as that of New York and 

 about three and one-half times that G 

 Brunswick. 



The People. Although there are only seven 

 states in the Union having a larger area tlun 

 Wyoming, there is but one Nevada which 

 has fewer inhabitants. In 1910 the population 

 was 145,965; this showed a gain of 57.7 per 

 cent over the census figures of 1900. The 

 number of inhabitants per square mile was 

 1.5, an average smaller than that of any other 

 state except Nevada, but twice as great as tin 

 average density of that state. On January 1, 

 1917, the population, according to a Federal 

 estimate, had increased to 182,264. 



Over sixteen per cent of the inhabitants are 

 foreigners, Austrians, English, Germans, Swedes, 

 Italians, Greeks, Scotch and Canadians being 

 the most numerous. There are about 600 ne-. 

 groes and over 900 Japanese and Chine je, \\\\n 

 are chiefly employed as laborers in the mines. 

 The Indian reservations cover 950 square miles, 

 and in 1915 the Indian population was 1329. 



About thirty per cent of th. inhabitants live 

 in incorporated cities and towns, only three of 

 \\tnrh have a population of over 5,000. SI 



