THE LOLLARDS:

A Tale,

FOUNDED ON THE

PERSECUTIONS WHICH MARKED THE EARLY PART

OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.

BY THE AUTHOR OF

THE MYSTERY, OR FORTY YEARS AGO; AND OF
CALTHORPE, OR FALLEN FORTUNES.

LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

Hones

7.26.43 47802

3v.

PREF A СЕ.

In the following pages it has been attempted to furnish correct sketches of scenes which actually occurred four centuries ago. The author, the compiler, perhaps, he should rather call himself, has supplied from imagination what he considered necessary to give them connexion; but generally, he has kept as closely as possible to history. This will account for some of the incidents bearing more resemblance to each other than would be desirable in a work purely fictitious, and anxiety to picture the manners of the times will perhaps avert