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 | | But his followers, who were not troubled with need of theories, were content to allege that a church which held large landed possessions, collected tithes greedily, and took money from starving peasants for baptizing, burying, and praying, could not be the church of Christ and his apostles. |
 | | Lollardy was flourishing, and most dangerous to the ecclesiastical organization of England, during the ten years after Wickliffe's death. |
 | | If the formal statements of the Lollard creed are to be gotten from these conclusions, the popular view of their controversy with the church may be gathered from the ballads preserved in the collection of political poems and songs relating to English history. |
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