A to Z Challenge – L is for …

Lollards, Levellers and Luddites.

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“In ye begynning was ye word and ye word was at god and ye ward was god”
the beginning of John Gospel from a pocket copy of Wycliffe’s translation of the Bible

In the 14th century the followers of the teachings of John Wycliffe formed a loosely organised group of religious dissidents. Wycliffe’s translation of the bible into vernacular English had made it possible for men to read the, without having to a...