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Walter Brute, born in VVales, a Sinner, Layman, Husbandman, and a Christian, (they are his own words in a certain Protestation which he made) was bred in Oxford. Being accused to the Bishop of Hereford, he (by a solemn Subscription) submitted himself prin∣cipally to the Evangely of Jesus Christ, to the determina∣tion and general Councils of Holy Kirk, to—Austin, Ambrose, Jerome and Gregory; and to his Bishop, as a
Subject ought to his Bishop. It seems this Brute was one of the first who was vext for Wickliffisme.
Nicholas Hereford, (probably) of British extraction, D. D. in Oxford, and a secular * 1.1 Priest, opposed Transubstantiation; maintain∣ed that Clergy-men ought to be subject to their respec∣tive Princes, that Monks and Friers ought to live by their own Labour; That all ought to rule themselves by the Word of God. He (with Philip Repington) was made to recant his Opinions at St. Pauls Cross in London, 1382. After which Repington proving a Per∣secutor of his party, was made Bishop of Lincoln, and afterwards made a Cardinal. Hereford being not so forward, was imprisoned (with John Purvey his Part∣ner) by Arch-Bishop Arundel.
Reginald Peacock, D. D. in Kings-Colledge in Oxford, was Bishop first of St. Asaph, then of Chichester. For 20 years together he favoured the Opinions of Wickliffe, and wrote much in defence thereof, until in a Synode held at Lambeth by Thomas Boucher, Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, 1457. he was made to recant at Pauls Cross, (his Books being burnt before his eyes) confuted with seven solid Arguments, thus reckoned up, Authoritate, Vi, Arte, Fraude, Metu, Terrore & Tyrannide. Some believe, that he recanted his recantation, others that he was privily made away in Prison.
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