[1] These and manie other opinions did these men hold and mainteine, and diuerse lords and great men [page 412] of the land fauoured their cause. But when these con|clusions were brought before the pope, he condem|ned the number of 23 of those articles as vaine and hereticall, directing his buls to the archbishop of Canturburie, and to the bishop of London, that they should cause the said Wiclife to be apprehended, and examined vpon the said conclusions, which they did in presence of the duke of Lancaster, and the lord Per|cie, and hearing his declaration, commanded him to silence, and in no wise to deale with those matters from thencefoorth,Wiclife & his felowes main|teined by cer|teine lords. so that for a time, both he and his fellowes kept silence: but after at the contemplati|on of diuerse of the temporall lords, they preached and set foorth their doctrine againe.