Chapter 2

1414-1417.

State of the Church. -- Henry a sincere Christian, but no Bigot. -- Degraded state of Religion. -- Council of Constance. -- Henry's Representatives zealous promoters of Reform. -- Hallam, Bishop of Salisbury, avowed enemy of the Popedom. -- Richard Ullerston: primitive views of Clerical duties. -- Walden, his own Chaplain, accuses Henry of remissness in the extirpation of Heresy. -- Forester's Letter to the King. -- Henry Beaufort's unhappy interference. -- Petition from Oxford. -- Henry's personal exertions in the business of Reform. -- Reflections on the then apparent dawn of the Reformation. Page 32