Mistress Margery

exert from the bookThis is a short book, but it was quite hard to transcribe on account ofso much of it being in mediaeval English, with its inconsistent anduncouth spelling.Margery is a young woman of high birth, who goes one day to hear asermon preached by one of the new Lollards, who advise people to readthe Bible as recently translated by Wycliffe, and to believe only whatthey find therein. This was directly contrary to the view of theofficial church, which had made up all sorts of doctrines