CHAPTER VI. RIVALRY BETWEEN THE ORDERS: ATTACKS ON THE FRIARS.

Rivalry between the Friars Preachers and Minors: proselytism 71 Politics and Philosophy 72 Peckham and the Oxford Friars 73 Evangelical Poverty 75 Contrast between theory and practice 78 Attack on the Friars by Richard Fitzralph 79 Charge of stealing children 79 Wiclif’s early relations to the Friars 81 His attack on them in his later years 82 Charges of gross immorality made not by Wiclif, but by his followers 83 The University and the Friars; summary of events in 1382 84 Unpopularity of the Friars in the fifteenth century 85 Foreign Minorites expelled from Oxford 86 Conspiracies against Henry IV; part taken by the Oxford Franciscans 87 Relations between the Conventual and Observant Franciscans 87