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No formal condemnation of [Wyclif ’s] English Bible was ever issued, or, as far as we know, attempted.

—F. D. Matthew, “The Authorship of the Wycliffite Bible” (1895)

Wycliffe’s chief bequest to posterity was the English Bible.

—James Gairdner, Lollardy and the Reformation in England (1908)

If the first English Bible was not produced by Wyclif and the Wycliffites, and was not censored by Arundel, the history of the late medieval English Church and of the liberation of the English people at the Reformation would need to be completely rewritten.

—Mary Dove, The First English Bible (2007)

By far the most important body of English prose since the Conquest.

—Robert Tombs, The English and Their History (2014)